Towards Generating Financial Reports From Table Data Using Transformers
- Clayton Chapman ,
- Lars Hillebrand ,
- Marc Robin Stenzel ,
- Tobias Deusser ,
- Christian Bauckhage ,
- Rafet Sifa
Abstract
Financial reports are commonplace in the business world, but are long
and tedious to produce. These reports mostly consist of tables with
written sections describing these tables. Automating the process of
creating these reports, even partially has the potential to save a
company time and resources that could be spent on more creative tasks.
We implement a transformer network to solve the task of generating this
text. By generating matching pairs between tables and sentences found in
financial documents, we created a dataset for our transformer. We were
able to achieve promising results, with the final model reaching a BLEU
score of 63.3. Generated sentences are natural, grammatically correct
and mostly faithful to the information found in the tables.