Elder, Henry, O'Connor, Alexander ORCID: 0000-0003-0301-999X and Foster, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-7789-4853 (2020) How to make neural natural language generation as reliable as templates in task-oriented dialogue. In: 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 16-20 Nov 2020, Online.
Abstract
Neural Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems are well known for their unreliability. To overcome this issue, we propose a data
augmentation approach which allows us to restrict the output of a network and guarantee reliability. While this restriction means generation will be less diverse than if randomly sampled, we include experiments that demonstrate the tendency of existing neural generation approaches to produce dull and repetitive text, and we argue that reliability is more important than diversity for this task. The system trained using this approach scored 100% in semantic accuracy on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset, the same as a template system.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Computational linguistics |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.230 |
Copyright Information: | 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics. (CC-BY-4.0) |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland via ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund |
ID Code: | 25957 |
Deposited On: | 02 Jun 2021 15:21 by Jennifer Foster . Last Modified 02 Jun 2021 15:21 |
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