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We present a generative model to map natural language questions into SQL queries. Existing neural network based approaches typically generate a SQL query word-by-word, however, a large portion of the generated results are incorrect or not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jianshu Ji , Guihong Cao , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Ming Zhou

Aggregating different pieces of similar information is necessary to generate concise and easy to understand reports in technical domains. This paper presents a general algorithm that combines similar messages in order to generate one or…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 James Shaw

Curriculum learning has shown promising improvements in multiple domains by training machine learning models from easy samples to hard ones. Previous works which either design rules or train models for scoring the difficulty highly rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Haifeng Tang , Kenny Q. Zhu

The ability to generate natural-language questions with controlled complexity levels is highly desirable as it further expands the applicability of question generation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end neural complexity-controllable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Sheng Bi , Xiya Cheng , Yuan-Fang Li , Lizhen Qu , Shirong Shen , Guilin Qi , Lu Pan , Yinlin Jiang

Automatic question generation can benefit many applications ranging from dialogue systems to reading comprehension. While questions are often asked with respect to long documents, there are many challenges with modeling such long documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Luu Anh Tuan , Darsh J Shah , Regina Barzilay

Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Stephanie L. Hyland , Theofanis Karaletsos , Gunnar Rätsch

We explore story generation: creative systems that can build coherent and fluent passages of text about a topic. We collect a large dataset of 300K human-written stories paired with writing prompts from an online forum. Our dataset enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Angela Fan , Mike Lewis , Yann Dauphin

Structured sentences are important expressions in human writings and dialogues. Previous works on neural text generation fused semantic and structural information by encoding the entire sentence into a mixed hidden representation. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xing Wu , Dongjun Wei , Liangjun Zang , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

We present a framework for generating natural language description from structured data such as tables; the problem comes under the category of data-to-text natural language generation (NLG). Modern data-to-text NLG systems typically employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Modeling the structure of coherent texts is a key NLP problem. The task of coherently organizing a given set of sentences has been commonly used to build and evaluate models that understand such structure. We propose an end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Radev

Splitting and rephrasing a complex sentence into several shorter sentences that convey the same meaning is a challenging problem in NLP. We show that while vanilla seq2seq models can reach high scores on the proposed benchmark (Narayan et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Roee Aharoni , Yoav Goldberg

Writers generally rely on plans or sketches to write long stories, but most current language models generate word by word from left to right. We explore coarse-to-fine models for creating narrative texts of several hundred words, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Angela Fan , Mike Lewis , Yann Dauphin

We present a comparison of word-based and character-based sequence-to-sequence models for data-to-text natural language generation, which generate natural language descriptions for structured inputs. On the datasets of two recent generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Glorianna Jagfeld , Sabrina Jenne , Ngoc Thang Vu

Motivated by the recent progress in generative models, we introduce a model that generates images from natural language descriptions. The proposed model iteratively draws patches on a canvas, while attending to the relevant words in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Elman Mansimov , Emilio Parisotto , Jimmy Lei Ba , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In recent years, the generation of conversation content based on deep neural networks has attracted many researchers. However, traditional neural language models tend to generate general replies, lacking logical and emotional factors. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jia Li , Xiao Sun , Xing Wei , Changliang Li , Jianhua Tao

The difficulty of generating coherent long texts lies in the fact that existing models overwhelmingly focus on predicting local words, and cannot make high level plans on what to generate or capture the high-level discourse dependencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Xiaofei Sun , Zijun Sun , Yuxian Meng , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

While GPT-2 generates sentences that are remarkably human-like, longer documents can ramble and do not follow human-like writing structure. We study the problem of imposing structure on long-range text. We propose a novel controlled text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alexander Spangher , Xinyu Hua , Yao Ming , Nanyun Peng

Inspired by how humans summarize long documents, we propose an accurate and fast summarization model that first selects salient sentences and then rewrites them abstractively (i.e., compresses and paraphrases) to generate a concise overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yen-Chun Chen , Mohit Bansal

In this report we present a system that can generate political speeches for a desired political party. Furthermore, the system allows to specify whether a speech should hold a supportive or opposing opinion. The system relies on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Valentin Kassarnig

APIs are everywhere; they provide access to automation solutions that could help businesses automate some of their tasks. Unfortunately, they may not be accessible to the business users who need them but are not equipped with the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Siyu Huo , Kushal Mukherjee , Jayachandu Bandlamudi , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Yara Rizk