Giulianelli, Mario;
(2022)
Towards Pragmatic Production Strategies for Natural Language Generation Tasks.
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
(pp. pp. 7978-7984).
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Abstract
This position paper proposes a conceptual framework for the design of Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems that follow efficient and effective production strategies in order to achieve complex communicative goals. In this general framework, efficiency is characterised as the parsimonious regulation of production and comprehension costs while effectiveness is measured with respect to task-oriented and contextually grounded communicative goals. We provide concrete suggestions for the estimation of goals, costs, and utility via modern statistical methods, demonstrating applications of our framework to the classic pragmatic task of visually grounded referential games and to abstractive text summarisation, two popular generation tasks with real-world applications. In sum, we advocate for the development of NLG systems that learn to make pragmatic production decisions from experience, by reasoning about goals, costs, and utility in a human-like way.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Towards Pragmatic Production Strategies for Natural Language Generation Tasks |
| Event: | 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing |
| Dates: | Dec 2022 - Dec 2022 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.544 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.544 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216485 |
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