Multi-Attribute Controlled Text Generation with Contrastive-Generator and External-Discriminator

Guisheng Liu, Yi Li, Yanqing Guo, Xiangyang Luo, Bo Wang


Abstract
Though existing researches have achieved impressive results in controlled text generation, they focus mainly on single-attribute control. However, in applications like automatic comments, the topic and sentiment need to be controlled simultaneously. In this work, we propose a new framework for multi-attribute controlled text generation. To achieve this, we design a contrastive-generator that can effectively generate texts with more attributes. In order to increase the convergence of the text on the desired attributes, we adopt an external-discriminator to distinguish whether the generated text holds the desired attributes. Moreover, we propose top-n weighted decoding to further improve the relevance of texts to attributes. Automated evaluations and human evaluations show that our framework achieves remarkable controllability in multi-attribute generation while keeping the text fluent and diverse. It also yields promising performance on zero-shot generation.
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2022.coling-1.516
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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5904–5913
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Guisheng Liu, Yi Li, Yanqing Guo, Xiangyang Luo, and Bo Wang. 2022. Multi-Attribute Controlled Text Generation with Contrastive-Generator and External-Discriminator. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5904–5913, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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