Data-efficient Neural Text Compression with Interactive Learning

Avinesh P.V.S, Christian M. Meyer


Abstract
Neural sequence-to-sequence models have been successfully applied to text compression. However, these models were trained on huge automatically induced parallel corpora, which are only available for a few domains and tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive setup to neural text compression that enables transferring a model to new domains and compression tasks with minimal human supervision. This is achieved by employing active learning, which intelligently samples from a large pool of unlabeled data. Using this setup, we can successfully adapt a model trained on small data of 40k samples for a headline generation task to a general text compression dataset at an acceptable compression quality with just 500 sampled instances annotated by a human.
Anthology ID:
N19-1262
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2543–2554
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1262
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1262
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Cite (ACL):
Avinesh P.V.S and Christian M. Meyer. 2019. Data-efficient Neural Text Compression with Interactive Learning. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 2543–2554, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Data-efficient Neural Text Compression with Interactive Learning (P.V.S & Meyer, NAACL 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-1262.pdf
Code
 UKPLab/NAACL2019-interactiveCompression
Data
Sentence Compression