Transformer-based Lexically Constrained Headline Generation

Kosuke Yamada, Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori, Ryohei Sasano, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, Koichi Takeda


Abstract
This paper explores a variant of automatic headline generation methods, where a generated headline is required to include a given phrase such as a company or a product name. Previous methods using Transformer-based models generate a headline including a given phrase by providing the encoder with additional information corresponding to the given phrase. However, these methods cannot always include the phrase in the generated headline. Inspired by previous RNN-based methods generating token sequences in backward and forward directions from the given phrase, we propose a simple Transformer-based method that guarantees to include the given phrase in the high-quality generated headline. We also consider a new headline generation strategy that takes advantage of the controllable generation order of Transformer. Our experiments with the Japanese News Corpus demonstrate that our methods, which are guaranteed to include the phrase in the generated headline, achieve ROUGE scores comparable to previous Transformer-based methods. We also show that our generation strategy performs better than previous strategies.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.335
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4085–4090
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.335
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.335
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Kosuke Yamada, Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori, Ryohei Sasano, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui, and Koichi Takeda. 2021. Transformer-based Lexically Constrained Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4085–4090, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Transformer-based Lexically Constrained Headline Generation (Yamada et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Code
 asahi-research/script-for-transformer-based-seq2bf
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JNC