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Text Generation with Exemplar-based Adaptive Decoding

Hao Peng, Ankur Parikh, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Dipanjan Das


Abstract
We propose a novel conditioned text generation model. It draws inspiration from traditional template-based text generation techniques, where the source provides the content (i.e., what to say), and the template influences how to say it. Building on the successful encoder-decoder paradigm, it first encodes the content representation from the given input text; to produce the output, it retrieves exemplar text from the training data as “soft templates,” which are then used to construct an exemplar-specific decoder. We evaluate the proposed model on abstractive text summarization and data-to-text generation. Empirical results show that this model achieves strong performance and outperforms comparable baselines.
Anthology ID:
N19-1263
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2555–2565
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1263
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1263
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Cite (ACL):
Hao Peng, Ankur Parikh, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, and Dipanjan Das. 2019. Text Generation with Exemplar-based Adaptive Decoding. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 2555–2565, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Text Generation with Exemplar-based Adaptive Decoding (Peng et al., NAACL 2019)
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