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Syntactic language models (SLMs) enhance Transformers by incorporating syntactic biases through the modeling of linearized syntactic parse trees alongside surface sentences. This paper focuses on compositional SLMs that are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yida Zhao , Hao Xve , Xiang Hu , Kewei Tu

Prior work on controllable text generation usually assumes that the controlled attribute can take on one of a small set of values known a priori. In this work, we propose a novel task, where the syntax of a generated sentence is controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Mingda Chen , Qingming Tang , Sam Wiseman , Kevin Gimpel

It is commonly believed that knowledge of syntactic structure should improve language modeling. However, effectively and computationally efficiently incorporating syntactic structure into neural language models has been a challenging topic.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Wenyu Du , Zhouhan Lin , Yikang Shen , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Yoshua Bengio , Yue Zhang

Building models that take advantage of the hierarchical structure of language without a priori annotation is a longstanding goal in natural language processing. We introduce such a model for the task of machine translation, pairing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-07 James Bradbury , Richard Socher

We introduce a novel, training-free approach for enhancing alignment in Transformer-based Text-Guided Diffusion Models (TGDMs). Existing TGDMs often struggle to generate semantically aligned images, particularly when dealing with complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shulei Wang , Wang Lin , Hai Huang , Hanting Wang , Sihang Cai , WenKang Han , Tao Jin , Jingyuan Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Jieming Zhu , Zhou Zhao

A code generation system generates programming language code based on an input natural language description. State-of-the-art approaches rely on neural networks for code generation. However, these code generators suffer from two problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zeyu Sun , Qihao Zhu , Yingfei Xiong , Yican Sun , Lili Mou , Lu Zhang

Text generation from a knowledge base aims to translate knowledge triples to natural language descriptions. Most existing methods ignore the faithfulness between a generated text description and the original table, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhenyi Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Bang An , Dong Yu , Changyou Chen

Transformer architectures have been successfully used in learning source code representations. The fusion between a graph representation like Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and a source code sequence makes the use of current approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Junyan Cheng , Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Barry Boehm

Grammar induction has made significant progress in recent years. However, it is not clear how the application of induced grammar could enhance practical performance in downstream tasks. In this work, we introduce an unsupervised grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jushi Kai , Shengyuan Hou , Yusheng Huang , Zhouhan Lin

Generative models reliant on sequential autoregression have been at the forefront of language generation for an extensive period, particularly following the introduction of widely acclaimed transformers. Despite its excellent performance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yaguang Li , Xin Chen

For over thirty years, researchers have developed and analyzed methods for latent tree induction as an approach for unsupervised syntactic parsing. Nonetheless, modern systems still do not perform well enough compared to their supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zhiyang Xu , Andrew Drozdov , Jay Yoon Lee , Tim O'Gorman , Subendhu Rongali , Dylan Finkbeiner , Shilpa Suresh , Mohit Iyyer , Andrew McCallum

Machine translation systems require semantic knowledge and grammatical understanding. Neural machine translation (NMT) systems often assume this information is captured by an attention mechanism and a decoder that ensures fluency. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ke Tran , Yonatan Bisk

Syntactic Language Models (SLMs) can be trained efficiently to reach relatively high performance; however, they have trouble with inference efficiency due to the explicit generation of syntactic structures. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ryo Yoshida , Taiga Someya , Yohei Oseki

Text generation from AMR requires mapping a semantic graph to a string that it annotates. Transformer-based graph encoders, however, poorly capture vertex dependencies that may benefit sequence prediction. To impose order on an encoder, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Lisa Jin , Daniel Gildea

In the field of source code processing, the transformer-based representation models have shown great powerfulness and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in many tasks. Although the transformer models process the sequential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

We study the problem of integrating syntactic information from constituency trees into a neural model in Frame-semantic parsing sub-tasks, namely Target Identification (TI), FrameIdentification (FI), and Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). We use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Emanuele Bastianelli , Andrea Vanzo , Oliver Lemon

Large language models (LM) based on Transformers allow to generate plausible long texts. In this paper, we explore how this generation can be further controlled at decoding time to satisfy certain constraints (e.g. being non-toxic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Antoine Chaffin , Vincent Claveau , Ewa Kijak

Data augmentation methods for Natural Language Processing tasks are explored in recent years, however they are limited and it is hard to capture the diversity on sentence level. Besides, it is not always possible to perform data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 M. Şafak Bilici , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

We propose a method for unsupervised parsing based on the linguistic notion of a constituency test. One type of constituency test involves modifying the sentence via some transformation (e.g. replacing the span with a pronoun) and then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Steven Cao , Nikita Kitaev , Dan Klein

Discourse representation tree structure (DRTS) parsing is a novel semantic parsing task which has been concerned most recently. State-of-the-art performance can be achieved by a neural sequence-to-sequence model, treating the tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Qiankun Fu , Yue Zhang , Jiangming Liu , Meishan Zhang