SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controller
Zhaowei Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, Simon See
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new task of sub-event generation for an unseen process to evaluate the understanding of the coherence of sub-event actions and objects. To solve the problem, we design SubeventWriter, a sub-event sequence generation framework with a coherence controller. Given an unseen process, the framework can iteratively construct the sub-event sequence by generating one sub-event at each iteration. We also design a very effective coherence controller to decode more coherent sub-events. As our extensive experiments and analysis indicate, SubeventWriter can generate more reliable and meaningful sub-event sequences for unseen processes.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.emnlp-main.103
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1590–1604
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.103
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhaowei Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, and Simon See. 2022. SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controller. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1590–1604, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controller (Wang et al., EMNLP 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2022.emnlp-main.103.pdf