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Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language
Generation (NLG), defined as the task of generating text or speech from
non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is timely in view of the changes that the
field has undergone over the past decade or so, especially in relation to new
(usually data-driven) methods, as well as new applications of NLG technology.
This survey therefore aims to (a) give an up-to-date synthesis of research on
the core tasks in NLG and the architectures adopted in which such tasks are
organised; (b) highlight a number of relatively recent research topics that
have arisen partly as a result of growing synergies between NLG and other areas
of artificial intelligence; (c) draw attention to the challenges in NLG
evaluation, relating them to similar challenges faced in other areas of Natural
Language Processing, with an emphasis on different evaluation methods and the
relationships between them.Comment: Published in Journal of AI Research (JAIR), volume 61, pp 75-170. 118
pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl
Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media
Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular
beliefs and opinions that could be useful to companies as well as governmental
or public policy agencies. Compact, easy to read, summaries of these dialogues
would thus be highly valuable. A priori, it is not even clear what form such a
summary should take. Previous work on summarization has primarily focused on
summarizing written texts, where the notion of an abstract of the text is well
defined. We collect gold standard training data consisting of five human
summaries for each of 161 dialogues on the topics of Gay Marriage, Gun Control
and Abortion. We present several different computational models aimed at
identifying segments of the dialogues whose content should be used for the
summary, using linguistic features and Word2vec features with both SVMs and
Bidirectional LSTMs. We show that we can identify the most important arguments
by using the dialog context with a best F-measure of 0.74 for gun control, 0.71
for gay marriage, and 0.67 for abortion.Comment: Proceedings of the 21th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of
Dialogue (SemDial 2017
Blending Sentence Optimization Weights of Unsupervised Approaches for Extractive Speech Summarization
AbstractThis paper evaluates the performance of two unsupervised approaches, Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) and concept-based global optimization framework for speech summarization. Automatic summarization is very useful techniques that can help the users browse a large amount of data. This study focuses on automatic extractive summarization on multi-dialogue speech corpus. We propose improved methods by blending each unsupervised approach at sentence level. Sentence level information is leveraged to improve the linguistic quality of selected summaries. First, these scores are used to filter sentences for concept extraction and concept weight computation. Second, we pre-select a subset of candidate summary sentences according to their sentence weights. Last, we extend the optimization function to a joint optimization of concept and sentence weights to cover both important concepts and sentences. Our experimental results show that these methods can improve the system performance comparing to the concept-based optimization baseline for both human transcripts and ASR output. The best scores are achieved by combining all three approaches, which are significantly better than the baseline system
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