This repo contains code for Data-to-text Generation with Variational Sequential Planning (Ratish Puduppully and Yao Fu and Mirella Lapata; In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)); this code is based on an earlier (version 0.9.2) fork of OpenNMT-py.

@article{puduppully-2021-seq-plan,
  author    = {Ratish Puduppully and Yao Fu and Mirella Lapata},
  title     = {Data-to-text Generation with Variational Sequential Planning},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (to appear)},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13756},
  year      = {2022}
}

The steps for training and inference for the MLB dataset are given in README_MLB.