Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing
Hao Yan, Saurabh Srivastava, Yintao Tai, Sida I. Wang, Wen-tau Yih, Ziyu Yao
Abstract
Interactive semantic parsing based on natural language (NL) feedback, where users provide feedback to correct the parser mistakes, has emerged as a more practical scenario than the traditional one-shot semantic parsing. However, prior work has heavily relied on human-annotated feedback data to train the interactive semantic parser, which is prohibitively expensive and not scalable. In this work, we propose a new task of simulating NL feedback for interactive semantic parsing. We accompany the task with a novel feedback evaluator. The evaluator is specifically designed to assess the quality of the simulated feedback, based on which we decide the best feedback simulator from our proposed variants. On a text-to-SQL dataset, we show that our feedback simulator can generate high-quality NL feedback to boost the error correction ability of a specific parser. In low-data settings, our feedback simulator can help achieve comparable error correction performance as trained using the costly, full set of human annotations.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.acl-long.177
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3149–3170
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.177
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.177
- Cite (ACL):
- Hao Yan, Saurabh Srivastava, Yintao Tai, Sida I. Wang, Wen-tau Yih, and Ziyu Yao. 2023. Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3149–3170, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing (Yan et al., ACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2023.acl-long.177.pdf