Yuki Okano


2023

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Generating Dialog Responses with Specified Grammatical Items for Second Language Learning
Yuki Okano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Ryo Nagata | Manabu Okumura
Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)

This paper proposes a new second language learning task of generating a response including specified grammatical items. We consider two approaches: 1) fine-tuning a pre-trained language model (DialoGPT) by reinforcement learning and 2) providing a few-shot prompt to a large language model (GPT-3). For reinforcement learning, we examine combinations of three reward functions that consider grammatical items, diversity, and fluency. Our experiments confirm that both approaches can generate responses including the specified grammatical items and that it is crucial to consider fluency rather than diversity as the reward function.

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A Follow-up Study on Evaluation Metrics Using Follow-up Utterances
Toshiki Kawamoto | Yuki Okano | Takato Yamazaki | Toshinori Sato | Kotaro Funakoshi | Manabu Okumura
Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation