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Recent deep learning models have shown improving results to natural language generation (NLG) irrespective of providing sufficient annotated data. However, a modest training data may harm such models performance. Thus, how to build a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Van-Khanh Tran , Le-Minh Nguyen

This article provides a brief overview of the field of Natural Language Generation. The term Natural Language Generation (NLG), in its broadest definition, refers to the study of systems that verbalize some form of information through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Emiel van Miltenburg , Chenghua Lin

In recent years some researchers have explored the use of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms as key components in the solution of various natural language processing tasks. For instance, some of these algorithms leveraging deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Victor Uc-Cetina , Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero , Anabel Martin-Gonzalez , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

This literature review focuses on the use of Natural Language Generation (NLG) to automatically detect and generate persuasive texts. Extending previous research on automatic identification of persuasion in text, we concentrate on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Sebastian Duerr , Peter A. Gloor

Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component in spoken dialogue system, which can be divided into two phases: (1) sentence planning: deciding the overall sentence structure, (2) surface realization: determining specific word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

This work aims to employ natural language generation (NLG) to rapidly generate items for English language learning applications: this requires both language models capable of generating fluent, high-quality English, and to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kevin Stowe , Debanjan Ghosh , Mengxuan Zhao

Neural network based approaches to data-to-text natural language generation (NLG) have gained popularity in recent years, with the goal of generating a natural language prompt that accurately realizes an input meaning representation. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yuheng Du , Shereen Oraby , Vittorio Perera , Minmin Shen , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Tagyoung Chung , Anu Venkatesh , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Recent years have seen a number of proposals for performing Natural Language Generation (NLG) based in large part on statistical techniques. Despite having many attractive features, we argue that these existing approaches nonetheless have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Xiao Li , Kees van Deemter , Chenghua Lin

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

This paper introduces TRUncated ReinForcement Learning for Language (TrufLL), an original ap-proach to train conditional language models from scratch by only using reinforcement learning (RL). AsRL methods unsuccessfully scale to large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alice Martin Donati , Guillaume Quispe , Charles Ollion , Sylvain Le Corff , Florian Strub , Olivier Pietquin

This paper offers a comprehensive review of the research on Natural Language Generation (NLG) over the past two decades, especially in relation to data-to-text generation and text-to-text generation deep learning methods, as well as new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Chenhe Dong , Yinghui Li , Haifan Gong , Miaoxin Chen , Junxin Li , Ying Shen , Min Yang

Natural language understanding (NLU) and Natural language generation (NLG) tasks hold a strong dual relationship, where NLU aims at predicting semantic labels based on natural language utterances and NLG does the opposite. The prior work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shang-Yu Su , Yung-Sung Chuang , Yun-Nung Chen

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has made great progress in recent years due to the development of deep learning techniques such as pre-trained language models. This advancement has resulted in more fluent, coherent and even properties…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wei Li , Wenhao Wu , Moye Chen , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu

We propose an approach towards natural language generation using a bidirectional encoder-decoder which incorporates external rewards through reinforcement learning (RL). We use attention mechanism and maximum mutual information as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vidhushini Srinivasan , Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

Designing task-oriented dialogue systems is a challenging research topic, since it needs not only to generate utterances fulfilling user requests but also to guarantee the comprehensibility. Many previous works trained end-to-end (E2E)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jianhong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Tae-Kyun Kim , Yunjie Gu

Conventionally, generation of natural language for dialogue agents may be viewed as a statistical learning problem: determine the patterns in human-provided data and generate appropriate responses with similar statistical properties.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Siddharth Verma , Justin Fu , Mengjiao Yang , Sergey Levine

Artificial intelligence progresses towards the "Era of Experience," where agents are expected to learn from continuous, grounded interaction. We argue that traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL), which typically represents value as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Xidong Feng , Bo Liu , Yan Song , Haotian Fu , Ziyu Wan , Girish A. Koushik , Zhiyuan Hu , Mengyue Yang , Ying Wen , Jun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are promising backbones for generative recommender systems, yet a key challenge remains underexplored: verbalization, i.e., converting structured user interaction logs into effective natural language inputs.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yucheng Shi , Ying Li , Yu Wang , Yesu Feng , Arjun Rao , Rein Houthooft , Shradha Sehgal , Jin Wang , Hao Zhen , Ninghao Liu , Linas Baltrunas

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ziwei Ji , Nayeon Lee , Rita Frieske , Tiezheng Yu , Dan Su , Yan Xu , Etsuko Ishii , Yejin Bang , Delong Chen , Wenliang Dai , Ho Shu Chan , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Natural Language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) enables the agents to follow human instructions. Previous approaches generally implemented language-conditioned RL by providing human instructions in natural language (NL) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jing-Cheng Pang , Xin-Yu Yang , Si-Hang Yang , Yang Yu