Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation

Thiago Castro Ferreira, Iacer Calixto, Sander Wubben, Emiel Krahmer


Abstract
In this paper, we study AMR-to-text generation, framing it as a translation task and comparing two different MT approaches (Phrase-based and Neural MT). We systematically study the effects of 3 AMR preprocessing steps (Delexicalisation, Compression, and Linearisation) applied before the MT phase. Our results show that preprocessing indeed helps, although the benefits differ for the two MT models.
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W17-3501
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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
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September
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2017
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Jose M. Alonso, Alberto Bugarín, Ehud Reiter
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INLG
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–10
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3501
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3501
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Thiago Castro Ferreira, Iacer Calixto, Sander Wubben, and Emiel Krahmer. 2017. Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 1–10, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation (Castro Ferreira et al., INLG 2017)
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