Automatic Data Visualization Generation from Chinese Natural Language Questions
Yan Ge, Victor Junqiu Wei, Yuanfeng Song, Jason Chen Zhang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
Abstract
Data visualization has emerged as an effective tool for getting insights from massive datasets. Due to the hardness of manipulating the programming languages of data visualization, automatic data visualization generation from natural languages (Text-to-Vis) is becoming increasingly popular. Despite the plethora of research effort on the English Text-to-Vis, studies have yet to be conducted on data visualization generation from questions in Chinese. Motivated by this, we propose a Chinese Text-to-Vis dataset in the paper and demonstrate our first attempt to tackle this problem. Our model integrates multilingual BERT as the encoder, boosts the cross-lingual ability, and infuses the n-gram information into our word representation learning. Our experimental results show that our dataset is challenging and deserves further research.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ge-etal-2024-automatic,
title = "Automatic Data Visualization Generation from {C}hinese Natural Language Questions",
author = "Ge, Yan and
Wei, Victor Junqiu and
Song, Yuanfeng and
Zhang, Jason Chen and
Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.169/",
pages = "1889--1898"
}