PASS is a Dutch data-to-text system for soccer reports. A description of the system can be found at https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3513 and an evaluation of the system's quality can be found at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1082 . PASS was developed for Python 3 and consists of several modules:

• Topic collection module: collects topics from the match data and gives them a chronological order
• Lookup module: opens the template database and retrieves all the template categories and corresponding templates that could be used to describe an event
• Ruleset module: checks for each template category if the conditions to use said category have been matched
• Template selection module: selects a template from the possible templates in a weighted random fashion
• Governing module: walks through every topic in a stepwise order and interacts with all the other modules necessary to generate the text
• Text collection module: takes the text describing each event and combines them in a predetermined order
• Template filler module: empty slots in the templates are filled with the right kind of information
• Information variety module: ensures that certain types of information in the report will not be repeated
• Reference variety module: tries to spot the same referent in two subsequent sentences. If the module is able to find this, it will use a different form to address the referent in the second sentence

You can find the templates for the win/loss and neutral conditions in Databases. The collected soccer data can be found in the InfoXMLs and NewInfoXMLs folders (Dutch Leagues 2015-16 COMPLETE2 gives more information about the data in InfoXMLs).

Only one library is needed to run PASS: BeautifulSoup (https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/).

To generate reports immediately, you can either do it via an IDE such as PyCharm, using PASS.py: change the path on line 47 to a data file of your desire, and indicate whether you want to save the result or not.

Using PASS via command line is possible as well: delete or comment out lines 40 and 47 from PASS.py and then use the following command:

python3 PASS.py main(link_to_data, save_state (y or n))