Abstract
Generating text from structured data is important for various tasks such as question answering and dialog systems. We show that in at least one domain, without any supervision and only based on unlabeled text, we are able to build a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system with higher performance than supervised approaches. In our approach, we interpret the structured data as a corrupt representation of the desired output and use a denoising auto-encoder to reconstruct the sentence. We show how to introduce noise into training examples that do not contain structured data, and that the resulting denoising auto-encoder generalizes to generate correct sentences when given structured data.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1426
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3922–3929
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1426
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1426
- Cite (ACL):
- Markus Freitag and Scott Roy. 2018. Unsupervised Natural Language Generation with Denoising Autoencoders. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3922–3929, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Unsupervised Natural Language Generation with Denoising Autoencoders (Freitag & Roy, EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/D18-1426.pdf