Imitation learning for language generation

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• Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield)
• Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:00-12:00
• Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

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Natural language generation (NLG) is the task of generating natural language from a meaning representation. Rule-based approaches require domain-specific and manually constructed linguistic resources, while most corpus based approaches rely on aligned training data and/or phrase templates. The latter are needed to restrict the search space for the structured prediction task defined by the unaligned datasets. In this talk we will discuss the use of imitation learning for structured prediction which learns an incremental model that handles the large search space while avoiding explicitly enumerating it. We will show how we adapted the Locally Optimal Learning to Search (Chang et al., 2015) framework which allows us to train against non-decomposable loss functions such as the BLEU or ROUGE scores while not assuming gold standard alignments. Furthermore, we will present an analysis of the datasets which examines common issues with NLG evaluation.

This talk is part of the Language Technology Lab Seminars series.

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