Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation
Fuli Luo, Shunyao Li, Pengcheng Yang, Lei Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Xu Sun
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of word senses. A major challenge for pun generation is the lack of large-scale pun corpus to guide supervised learning. To remedy this, we propose an adversarial generative network for pun generation (Pun-GAN). It consists of a generator to produce pun sentences, and a discriminator to distinguish between the generated pun sentences and the real sentences with specific word senses. The output of the discriminator is then used as a reward to train the generator via reinforcement learning, encouraging it to produce pun sentences which can support two word senses simultaneously. Experiments show that the proposed Pun-GAN can generate sentences that are more ambiguous and diverse in both automatic and human evaluation.- Anthology ID:
- D19-1336
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3388–3393
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1336
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1336
- Cite (ACL):
- Fuli Luo, Shunyao Li, Pengcheng Yang, Lei Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, and Xu Sun. 2019. Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 3388–3393, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation (Luo et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/D19-1336.pdf
- Code
- lishunyao97/Pun-GAN