Controlling Sequence-to-Sequence Models - A Demonstration on Neural-based Acrostic Generator

Liang-Hsin Shen, Pei-Lun Tai, Chao-Chung Wu, Shou-De Lin


Abstract
An acrostic is a form of writing that the first token of each line (or other recurring features in the text) forms a meaningful sequence. In this paper we present a generalized acrostic generation system that can hide certain message in a flexible pattern specified by the users. Different from previous works that focus on rule-based solutions, here we adopt a neural- based sequence-to-sequence model to achieve this goal. Besides acrostic, users are also allowed to specify the rhyme and length of the output sequences. Based on our knowledge, this is the first neural-based natural language generation system that demonstrates the capability of performing micro-level control over output sentences.
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D19-3008
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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43–48
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-3008
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3008
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Liang-Hsin Shen, Pei-Lun Tai, Chao-Chung Wu, and Shou-De Lin. 2019. Controlling Sequence-to-Sequence Models - A Demonstration on Neural-based Acrostic Generator. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 43–48, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Controlling Sequence-to-Sequence Models - A Demonstration on Neural-based Acrostic Generator (Shen et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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