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Data Augmentation for Spoken Language Understanding via Joint Variational Generation
Data scarcity is one of the main obstacles of domain adaptation in spoken
language understanding (SLU) due to the high cost of creating manually tagged
SLU datasets. Recent works in neural text generative models, particularly
latent variable models such as variational autoencoder (VAE), have shown
promising results in regards to generating plausible and natural sentences. In
this paper, we propose a novel generative architecture which leverages the
generative power of latent variable models to jointly synthesize fully
annotated utterances. Our experiments show that existing SLU models trained on
the additional synthetic examples achieve performance gains. Our approach not
only helps alleviate the data scarcity issue in the SLU task for many datasets
but also indiscriminately improves language understanding performances for
various SLU models, supported by extensive experiments and rigorous statistical
testing.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, Accepted in AAAI201
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1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Dissertation Overview 6
2 Background and Related Work 8
2.1 Deep Latent Variable Models 8
2.1.1 Variational Autoencoder (VAE) 10
2.1.2 Deep Generative Models and Text Generation 12
2.2 Data Augmentation 12
2.2.1 General Description 13
2.2.2 Categorization of Data Augmentation 14
2.2.3 Theoretical Explanations 21
2.3 Summary 24
3 Basic Task: Text Classi cation 25
3.1 Introduction 25
3.2 Our Approach 28
3.2.1 Proposed Models 28
3.2.2 Training with I-VAE 29
3.3 Experiments 31
3.3.1 Datasets 32
3.3.2 Experimental Settings 33
3.3.3 Implementation Details 34
3.3.4 Data Augmentation Results 36
3.3.5 Ablation Studies 39
3.3.6 Qualitative Analysis 40
3.4 Summary 45
4 Multi-task Learning: Spoken Language Understanding 46
4.1 Introduction 46
4.2 Related Work 48
4.3 Model Description 48
4.3.1 Framework Formulation 48
4.3.2 Joint Generative Model 49
4.4 Experiments 56
4.4.1 Datasets 56
4.4.2 Experimental Settings 57
4.4.3 Generative Data Augmentation Results 61
4.4.4 Comparison to Other State-of-the-art Results 63
4.4.5 Ablation Studies 63
4.5 Summary 67
5 Complex Data: Dialogue State Tracking 68
5.1 Introduction 68
5.2 Background and Related Work 70
5.2.1 Task-oriented Dialogue 70
5.2.2 Dialogue State Tracking 72
5.2.3 Conversation Modeling 72
5.3 Variational Hierarchical Dialogue Autoencoder (VHDA) 73
5.3.1 Notations 73
5.3.2 Variational Hierarchical Conversational RNN 74
5.3.3 Proposed Model 75
5.3.4 Posterior Collapse 82
5.4 Experimental Results 84
5.4.1 Experimental Settings 84
5.4.2 Data Augmentation Results 90
5.4.3 Intrinsic Evaluation - Language Evaluation 94
5.4.4 Qualitative Results 95
5.5 Summary 101
6 Conclusion 103
6.1 Summary 103
6.2 Limitations 104
6.3 Future Work 105Docto
Simple is Better! Lightweight Data Augmentation for Low Resource Slot Filling and Intent Classification
Neural-based models have achieved outstanding performance on slot filling and
intent classification, when fairly large in-domain training data are available.
However, as new domains are frequently added, creating sizeable data is
expensive. We show that lightweight augmentation, a set of augmentation methods
involving word span and sentence level operations, alleviates data scarcity
problems. Our experiments on limited data settings show that lightweight
augmentation yields significant performance improvement on slot filling on the
ATIS and SNIPS datasets, and achieves competitive performance with respect to
more complex, state-of-the-art, augmentation approaches. Furthermore,
lightweight augmentation is also beneficial when combined with pre-trained
LM-based models, as it improves BERT-based joint intent and slot filling
models.Comment: Accepted at PACLIC 2020 - The 34th Pacific Asia Conference on
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