Deep learning approaches to text production / Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent.

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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-173).

1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is text production? -- 1.2. Roadmap -- 1.3. What's not covered? -- 1.4. Our notations

part I. Basics. 2. Pre-neural approaches -- 2.1. Data-to-text generation -- 2.2. Meaning representations-to-text generation -- 2.3. Text-to-text generation -- 2.4. Summary

3. Deep learning frameworks -- 3.1. Basics -- 3.2. The encoder-decoder framework -- 3.3. Differences with pre-neural text-production approaches -- 3.4. Summary

part II. Neural improvements. 4. Generating better text -- 4.1. Attention -- 4.2. Copy -- 4.3. Coverage -- 4.4. Summary

5. Building better input representations -- 5.1. Pitfalls of modelling input as a sequence of tokens -- 5.2. Modelling text structures -- 5.3. Modelling graph structure -- 5.4. Summary

6. Modelling task-specific communication goals -- 6.1. Task-specific knowledge for content selection -- 6.2. Optimising task-specific evaluation metric with reinforcement learning -- 6.3. User modelling in neural conversational model -- 6.4. Summary

part III. Data sets and conclusion. 7. Data sets and challenges -- 7.1. Data sets for data-to-text generation -- 7.2. Data sets for meaning representations to text generation -- 7.3. Data sets for text-to-text generation

8. Conclusion -- 8.1. Summarising -- 8.2. Overview of covered neural generators -- 8.3. Two key issues with neural NLG -- 8.4. Challenges -- 8.5. Recent trends in neural NLG.

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Text production has many applications. It is used, for instance, to generate dialogue turns from dialogue moves, verbalise the content of knowledge bases, or generate English sentences from rich linguistic representations, such as dependency trees or abstract meaning representations. Text production is also at work in text-to-text transformations such as sentence compression, sentence fusion, paraphrasing, sentence (or text) simplification, and text summarisation. This book offers an overview of the fundamentals of neural models for text production. In particular, we elaborate on three main aspects of neural approaches to text production: how sequential decoders learn to generate adequate text, how encoders learn to produce better input representations, and how neural generators account for task-specific objectives. Indeed, each text-production task raises a slightly different challenge (e.g, how to take the dialogue context into account when producing a dialogue turn, how to detect and merge relevant information when summarising a text, or how to produce a well-formed text that correctly captures the information contained in some input data in the case of data-to-text generation). We outline the constraints specific to some of these tasks and examine how existing neural models account for them. More generally, this book considers text-to-text, meaning-to-text, and data-to-text transformations. It aims to provide the audience with a basic knowledge of neural approaches to text production and a roadmap to get them started with the related work. The book is mainly targeted at researchers, graduate students, and industrials interested in text production from different forms of inputs.

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