AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples

Dongyeop Kang, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Eduard Hovy


Abstract
We consider the problem of learning textual entailment models with limited supervision (5K-10K training examples), and present two complementary approaches for it. First, we propose knowledge-guided adversarial example generators for incorporating large lexical resources in entailment models via only a handful of rule templates. Second, to make the entailment model—a discriminator—more robust, we propose the first GAN-style approach for training it using a natural language example generator that iteratively adjusts to the discriminator’s weaknesses. We demonstrate effectiveness using two entailment datasets, where the proposed methods increase accuracy by 4.7% on SciTail and by 2.8% on a 1% sub-sample of SNLI. Notably, even a single hand-written rule, negate, improves the accuracy of negation examples in SNLI by 6.1%.
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P18-1225
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2418–2428
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https://aclanthology.org/P18-1225
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1225
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Dongyeop Kang, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, and Eduard Hovy. 2018. AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2418–2428, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples (Kang et al., ACL 2018)
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