How to Make Neural Natural Language Generation as Reliable as Templates in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Henry Elder, Alexander O'Connor, Jennifer Foster
Language Generation Short Paper
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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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