Natural Language Generation by Hierarchical Decoding with Linguistic Patterns

References

Main papers to be cited (NAACL2018 and SLT2018):

@inproceedings{su2018natural,
    title={Natural Language Generation by Hierarchical Decoding with Linguistic Patterns},
    author={Shang-Yu Su, Kai-Ling Lo, Yi-Ting Yeh, and Yun-Nung Chen},
    booktitle={Proceedings of The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
    year={2018}
}

@inproceedings{su2018investigating,
    title={Investigating Linguistic Pattern Ordering in Hierarchical Natural Language Generation},
    author={Shang-Yu Su, and Yun-Nung Chen},
    booktitle={Proceedings of The 7th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology},
    year={2018}
}

Setup

# Get the E2ENLG dataset (from the link below), and put it under data/E2ENLG/
$ mkdir -p data/E2ENLG/
# take conda for example, create a new environment
$ conda create -n [your_env_name] python=3
$ source activate [your_env_name]
$ conda install pytorch torchvision -c pytorch
$ conda install spacy nltk
# download the spaCy models
$ python -m spacy download en

Usage

Please refer to example_train.sh and example_test.sh for the examples of commands.

# under src/
$ python3 train.py --data_dir=../data/

Optional Arguments:

# under src/
$ python3 train.py --help

Data

E2E NLG:

Link