The Turku Hockey Data2Text corpus was developed as a benchmark for evaluating template-free, machine learning methods on Finnish news generation in the area of ice hockey reporting. This dataset is a collection of 3,454 ice hockey games, each including game statistics and a news article describing the game. Each game includes manual alignment of events (such as goals or penalties) and sentences describing the specific event in natural language extracted from the news article. The corpus includes 12,827 annotated events. The natural language passages are manually curated not to include any information not derivable from the input data or world knowledge.
