Title
Unsupervised Controllable Text Formalization
Abstract
We propose a novel framework for controllable natural language transformation. Realizing that the requirement of parallel corpus is practically unsustainable for controllable generation tasks, an unsupervised training scheme is introduced. The crux of the framework is a deep neural encoder-decoder that is reinforced with text-transformation knowledge through auxiliary modules (called scorers). These scorers, based on off-the-shelf language processing tools, decide the learning scheme of the encoder-decoder based on its actions. We apply this framework for the text-transformation task of formalizing an input text by improving its readability grade; the degree of required formalization can be controlled by the user at run-time. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate the efficacy of our model towards: (a) transforming a given text to a more formal style, and (b) varying the amount of formalness in the output text based on the specified input control. Our code and datasets are released for academic use.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
national conference on artificial intelligence
Computer science,Readability,Natural language,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1809.04556
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Parag Jain194.53
Abhijit Mishra284.51
Amar Prakash Azad322.05
Karthik Sankaranarayanan4289.36