The analytical description of charts is an exciting and important research area with many applications in academia and industry. Yet, this challenging task has received limited attention from the computational linguistics research community. This paper proposes \textsf{AutoChart}, a large dataset for the analytical description of charts, which aims to encourage more research into this important area. Specifically, we offer a novel framework that generates the charts and their analytical description automatically. We conducted extensive human and machine evaluations on the generated charts and descriptions and demonstrate that the generated texts are informative, coherent, and relevant to the corresponding charts.
翻译:图表的分析描述是一个令人振奋和重要的研究领域,在学术界和产业界有许多应用,然而,这一具有挑战性的任务在计算语言研究界受到的关注有限,本文件提议为图表的分析描述提供大数据集,旨在鼓励对这一重要领域进行更多的研究。具体地说,我们提供了一个新的框架,可以自动生成图表及其分析描述。我们对生成的图表和描述进行了广泛的人和机器评估,并表明生成的文本内容丰富、连贯且与相应的图表相关。