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|title=Does Structure Matter? Leveraging Data-to-Text Generation for Answering Complex Information Needs – Abstract
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|authors=Hanane Djeddal,Thomas Gerald,Laure Soulier,Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat,Lynda Tamine
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==Does Structure Matter? Leveraging Data-to-Text Generation for Answering Complex Information Needs – Abstract==
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Does Structure Matter? Leveraging Data-to-Text
Generation for Answering Complex Information
Needs – Abstract
Hanane Djeddal1 , Thomas Gerald1 , Laure Soulier1 , Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat2 and
Lynda Tamine2
1
    Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR, F-75005 Paris, France
1
    Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, Toulouse, France


                                         Abstract
                                         In this work, our aim is to provide a structured answer in natural language to a complex information
                                         need. Particularly, we envision using generative models from the perspective of data-to-text generation.
                                         We propose the use of a content selection and planning pipeline which aims at structuring the answer
                                         by generating intermediate plans. The experimental evaluation is performed using the TREC Complex
                                         Answer Retrieval (CAR) dataset. We evaluate both the generated answer and its corresponding structure
                                         and show the effectiveness of planning-based models in comparison to a text-to-text model. This work
                                         has been published at ECIR 2022.

                                         Keywords
                                         Answer generation, Complex search tasks, Data-to-text generation,




CIRCLE’22: Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe, July 04–07, 2022, Samatan, Gers, France
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(L. Soulier); sauvagnat@irit.fr (K. Pinel-Sauvagnat); tamine@irit.fr (L. Tamine)
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