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    <abstract>This paper presents an automatic method to evaluate the naturalness of natural language generation in dialogue systems. While this task was previously rendered through expensive and time-consuming human labor, we present this novel task of automatic naturalness evaluation of generated language. By fine-tuning the BERT model, our proposed naturalness evaluation method shows robust results and outperforms the baselines: support vector machines, bi-directional LSTMs, and BLEURT. In addition, the training speed and evaluation performance of naturalness model are improved by transfer learning from quality and informativeness linguistic knowledge.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT
%A Liu, Ye
%A Maier, Wolfgang
%A Minker, Wolfgang
%A Ultes, Stefan
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
%Y Angelova, Galia
%S Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)
%D 2021
%8 September
%I INCOMA Ltd.
%C Held Online
%F liu-etal-2021-naturalness
%X This paper presents an automatic method to evaluate the naturalness of natural language generation in dialogue systems. While this task was previously rendered through expensive and time-consuming human labor, we present this novel task of automatic naturalness evaluation of generated language. By fine-tuning the BERT model, our proposed naturalness evaluation method shows robust results and outperforms the baselines: support vector machines, bi-directional LSTMs, and BLEURT. In addition, the training speed and evaluation performance of naturalness model are improved by transfer learning from quality and informativeness linguistic knowledge.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.96
%P 839-845

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[Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT](https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.96) (Liu et al., RANLP 2021)

• Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT (Liu et al., RANLP 2021)

ACL

• Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. 2021. Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), pages 839–845, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..