Neural Generation for Czech: Data and Baselines

Ondřej Dušek, Filip Jurčíček


Abstract
We present the first dataset targeted at end-to-end NLG in Czech in the restaurant domain, along with several strong baseline models using the sequence-to-sequence approach. While non-English NLG is under-explored in general, Czech, as a morphologically rich language, makes the task even harder: Since Czech requires inflecting named entities, delexicalization or copy mechanisms do not work out-of-the-box and lexicalizing the generated outputs is non-trivial. In our experiments, we present two different approaches to this this problem: (1) using a neural language model to select the correct inflected form while lexicalizing, (2) a two-step generation setup: our sequence-to-sequence model generates an interleaved sequence of lemmas and morphological tags, which are then inflected by a morphological generator.
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W19-8670
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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
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October–November
Year:
2019
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Tokyo, Japan
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Kees van Deemter, Chenghua Lin, Hiroya Takamura
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INLG
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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563–574
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-8670
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-8670
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Ondřej Dušek and Filip Jurčíček. 2019. Neural Generation for Czech: Data and Baselines. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 563–574, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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