Title
Dictionary-Guided Editing Networks for Paraphrase Generation
Abstract
An intuitive way for a human to write paraphrase sentences is to replace words or phrases in the original sentence with their corresponding synonyms and make necessary changes to ensure the new sentences are fluent and grammatically correct. We propose a novel approach to modeling the process with dictionary-guided editing networks which effectively conduct rewriting on the source sentence to generate paraphrase sentences. It jointly learns the selection of the appropriate word level and phrase level paraphrase pairs in the context of the original sentence from an off-the-shelf dictionary as well as the generation of fluent natural language sentences. Specifically, the system retrieves a set of word level and phrase level paraphrase pairs derived from the Paraphrase Database (PPDB) for the original sentence, which is used to guide the decision of which the words might be deleted or inserted with the soft attention mechanism under the sequence-to-sequence framework. We conduct experiments on two benchmark datasets for paraphrase generation, namely the MSCOCO and Quora dataset. The automatic evaluation results demonstrate that our dictionary-guided editing networks outperforms the baseline methods. On human evaluation, results indicate that the generated paraphrases are grammatically correct and relevant to the input sentence.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
national conference on artificial intelligence
Computer science,Synonym,Phrase,Paraphrase,Natural language,Rewriting,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Sentence
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1806.08077
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaohan Huang15710.29
Yu Wu2135.00
Furu Wei31956107.57
Zhongzhi Luan400.34