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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…

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This paper summarises the experimental setup and results of the first shared task on end-to-end (E2E) natural language generation (NLG) in spoken dialogue systems. Recent end-to-end generation systems are promising since they reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Ondřej Dušek , Jekaterina Novikova , Verena Rieser

Natural language generation (NLG) systems are computer software systems that produce texts in English and other human languages, often from non-linguistic input data. NLG systems, like most AI systems, need substantial amounts of knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-28 E. Reiter , R. Robertson , S. G. Sripada

Deep neural networks (DNN) are quickly becoming the de facto standard modeling method for many natural language generation (NLG) tasks. In order for such models to truly be useful, they must be capable of correctly generating utterances for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Chris Kedzie , Kathleen McKeown

Paraphrasing exists at different granularity levels, such as lexical level, phrasal level and sentential level. This paper presents Decomposable Neural Paraphrase Generator (DNPG), a Transformer-based model that can learn and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zichao Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Qun Liu

Text generation is the automated process of producing written or spoken language using computational methods. It involves generating coherent and contextually relevant text based on predefined rules or learned patterns. However, challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Rahimanuddin Shaik , Katikela Sreeharsha Kishore

We propose a method to automatically generate a domain- and task-adaptive maskings of the given text for self-supervised pre-training, such that we can effectively adapt the language model to a particular target task (e.g. question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Minki Kang , Moonsu Han , Sung Ju Hwang

Natural language generation (NLG) is an essential component of task-oriented dialog systems. Despite the recent success of neural approaches for NLG, they are typically developed in an offline manner for particular domains. To better fit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Fei Mi , Liangwei Chen , Mengjie Zhao , Minlie Huang , Boi Faltings

Recent advances of powerful Language Models have allowed Natural Language Generation (NLG) to emerge as an important technology that can not only perform traditional tasks like summarisation or translation, but also serve as a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Joris Baan , Nico Daheim , Evgenia Ilia , Dennis Ulmer , Haau-Sing Li , Raquel Fernández , Barbara Plank , Rico Sennrich , Chrysoula Zerva , Wilker Aziz

Motivated by the difficulty in presenting computational results, especially when the results are a collection of atoms in a logical language, to users, who are not proficient in computer programming and/or the logical representation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Van Duc Nguyen , Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli

Natural language generation (NLG) is an essential component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Despite the recent success of neural approaches for NLG, they are typically developed for particular domains with rich annotated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Fei Mi , Minlie Huang , Jiyong Zhang , Boi Faltings

Moving from limited-domain natural language generation (NLG) to open domain is difficult because the number of semantic input combinations grows exponentially with the number of domains. Therefore, it is important to leverage existing…

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Natural language generation systems (NLG) map non-linguistic representations into strings of words through a number of steps using intermediate representations of various levels of abstraction. Template based systems, by contrast, tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emanuele Pianta , Lucia M. Tovena

Cross-domain natural language generation (NLG) is still a difficult task within spoken dialogue modelling. Given a semantic representation provided by the dialogue manager, the language generator should generate sentences that convey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Florian Kreyssig , Pawel Budzianowski , Inigo Casanueva , Yen-Chen Wu , Stefan Ultes , Milica Gasic

We present a novel natural language generation system for spoken dialogue systems capable of entraining (adapting) to users' way of speaking, providing contextually appropriate responses. The generator is based on recurrent neural networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ondřej Dušek , Filip Jurčíček

Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a key component in a task-oriented dialogue system, which converts the structured meaning representation (MR) to the natural language. For large-scale conversational systems, where it is common to have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Xinnuo Xu , Guoyin Wang , Young-Bum Kim , Sungjin Lee

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

Translating formal language into natural language is a foundational challenge in NLP, driving various downstream applications in semantic parsing, theorem validation, and question answering. In this study, we introduce First-Order Logic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mei Jia

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

In modular dialogue systems, natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) are two critical components, where NLU extracts the semantics from the given texts and NLG is to construct corresponding natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Shang-Yu Su , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen