Title
A Sentiment-Controllable Topic-to-Essay Generator with Topic Knowledge Graph
Abstract
Generating a vivid, novel, and diverse essay with only several given topic words is a challenging task of natural language generation. In previous work, there are two problems left unsolved: neglect of sentiment beneath the text and insufficient utilization of topic-related knowledge. Therefore, we propose a novel Sentiment-Controllable topic-to-essay generator with a Topic Knowledge Graph enhanced decoder, named SCTKG, which is based on the conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) framework. We firstly inject the sentiment information into the generator for controlling sentiment for each sentence, which leads to various generated essays. Then we design a Topic Knowledge Graph enhanced decoder. Unlike existing models that use knowledge entities separately, our model treats the knowledge graph as a whole and encodes more structured, connected semantic information in the graph to generate a more relevant essay. Experimental results show that our SCTKG can generate sentiment controllable essays and outperform the state-of-the-art approach in terms of topic relevance, fluency, and diversity on both automatic and human evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.18653/V1/2020.FINDINGS-EMNLP.299
EMNLP
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
2020.findings-emnlp
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lin Qiao100.34
Jianhao Yan201.01
Fandong Meng33119.11
Zhendong Yang400.34
Jie Zhou51311.09