A Simple Recipe towards Reducing Hallucination in Neural Surface Realisation

Feng Nie, Jin-Ge Yao, Jinpeng Wang, Rong Pan, Chin-Yew Lin


Abstract
Recent neural language generation systems often hallucinate contents (i.e., producing irrelevant or contradicted facts), especially when trained on loosely corresponding pairs of the input structure and text. To mitigate this issue, we propose to integrate a language understanding module for data refinement with self-training iterations to effectively induce strong equivalence between the input data and the paired text. Experiments on the E2E challenge dataset show that our proposed framework can reduce more than 50% relative unaligned noise from the original data-text pairs. A vanilla sequence-to-sequence neural NLG model trained on the refined data has improved on content correctness compared with the current state-of-the-art ensemble generator.
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P19-1256
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2673–2679
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1256
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1256
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Feng Nie, Jin-Ge Yao, Jinpeng Wang, Rong Pan, and Chin-Yew Lin. 2019. A Simple Recipe towards Reducing Hallucination in Neural Surface Realisation. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2673–2679, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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