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We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

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Interpretations of a single sentence can vary, particularly when its context is lost. This paper aims to simulate how readers perceive content with varying toxicity levels by generating diverse interpretations of out-of-context sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Maria Mihaela Trusca , Liesbeth Allein

Unsupervised paraphrase generation is a promising and important research topic in natural language processing. We propose UPSA, a novel approach that accomplishes Unsupervised Paraphrasing by Simulated Annealing. We model paraphrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xianggen Liu , Lili Mou , Fandong Meng , Hao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Sen Song

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) represent the paramount evidence of clinical medicine. Using machines to interpret the massive amount of RCTs has the potential of aiding clinical decision-making. We propose a RCT conclusion generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Alexander Te-Wei Shieh , Yung-Sung Chuang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

In this article we show how the problem of neural text generation can be constructively reformulated in terms of transitions between the states of a finite-state machine. This framework leads to an efficient approach to guiding text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Brandon T. Willard , Rémi Louf

A key challenge in citation text generation is that the length of generated text often differs from the length of the target, lowering the quality of the generation. While prior works have investigated length-controlled generation, their…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Biswadip Mandal , Xiangci Li , Jessica Ouyang

Recently, large language models such as GPT-2 have shown themselves to be extremely adept at text generation and have also been able to achieve high-quality results in many downstream NLP tasks such as text classification, sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Sam Witteveen , Martin Andrews

Small language models like T5 excel in generating high-quality text for data-to-text tasks, offering adaptability and cost-efficiency compared to Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they frequently miss keywords, which is considered one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xuan Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

We present ToTTo, an open-domain English table-to-text dataset with over 120,000 training examples that proposes a controlled generation task: given a Wikipedia table and a set of highlighted table cells, produce a one-sentence description.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ankur P. Parikh , Xuezhi Wang , Sebastian Gehrmann , Manaal Faruqui , Bhuwan Dhingra , Diyi Yang , Dipanjan Das

Current state-of-the-art text generators build on powerful language models such as GPT-2, achieving impressive performance. However, to avoid degenerate text, they require sampling from a modified softmax, via temperature parameters or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

Paraphrase generation is an important problem in NLP, especially in question answering, information retrieval, information extraction, conversation systems, to name a few. In this paper, we address the problem of generating paraphrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ankush Gupta , Arvind Agarwal , Prawaan Singh , Piyush Rai

Generating paraphrases, that is, different variations of a sentence conveying the same meaning, is an important yet challenging task in NLP. Automatically generating paraphrases has its utility in many NLP tasks like question answering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Milan Aggarwal , Nupur Kumari , Ayush Bansal , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating code based on a specification. In Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) this specification is a combination of a syntactic template and a logical formula, and the result is guaranteed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Julian Parsert , Elizabeth Polgreen

Conversational AI assistants are becoming popular and question-answering is an important part of any conversational assistant. Using relevant utterances as features in question-answering has shown to improve both the precision and recall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Soham Parikh , Quaizar Vohra , Mitul Tiwari

Machine Learning has seen tremendous growth recently, which has led to larger adoption of ML systems for educational assessments, credit risk, healthcare, employment, criminal justice, to name a few. The trustworthiness of ML and NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nishtha Madaan , Inkit Padhi , Naveen Panwar , Diptikalyan Saha

Syntax-guided synthesis aims to find a program satisfying semantic specification as well as user-provided structural hypothesis. For syntax-guided synthesis there are two main search strategies: concrete search, which systematically or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kangjing Huang , Xiaokang Qiu , Qi Tian , Yanjun Wang

We introduce a new task of entailment relation aware paraphrase generation which aims at generating a paraphrase conforming to a given entailment relation (e.g. equivalent, forward entailing, or reverse entailing) with respect to a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Abhilasha Sancheti , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Rachel Rudinger

Controlling the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) through context-sensitive constraints has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) in guaranteeing generation validity. However, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohammad Albinhassan , Pranava Madhyastha , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

Controlled text generation is a very important task in the arena of natural language processing due to its promising applications. In order to achieve this task we mainly introduce the novel soft prompt tuning method of using soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Damith Chamalke Senadeera , Julia Ive