Logical Natural Language Generation from Open-Domain Tables

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10404v2
• Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:26:21 GMT
• Title: Logical Natural Language Generation from Open-Domain Tables
• Authors: Wenhu Chen, Jianshu Chen, Yu Su, Zhiyu Chen and William Yang Wang
• Abstract summary: We propose a new task where a model is tasked with generating natural language statements that can be emphlogically entailed by the facts. To facilitate the study of the proposed logical NLG problem, we use the existing TabFact dataset citechen 2019tabfact featured with a wide range of logical/symbolic inferences. The new task poses challenges to the existing monotonic generation frameworks due to the mismatch between sequence order and logical order.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Neural natural language generation (NLG) models have recently shown remarkable progress in fluency and coherence. However, existing studies on neural NLG are primarily focused on surface-level realizations with limited emphasis on logical inference, an important aspect of human thinking and language. In this paper, we suggest a new NLG task where a model is tasked with generating natural language statements that can be \emph{logically entailed} by the facts in an open-domain semi-structured table. To facilitate the study of the proposed logical NLG problem, we use the existing TabFact dataset \cite{chen2019tabfact} featured with a wide range of logical/symbolic inferences as our testbed, and propose new automatic metrics to evaluate the fidelity of generation models w.r.t.\ logical inference. The new task poses challenges to the existing monotonic generation frameworks due to the mismatch between sequence order and logical order. In our experiments, we comprehensively survey different generation architectures (LSTM, Transformer, Pre-Trained LM) trained with different algorithms (RL, Adversarial Training, Coarse-to-Fine) on the dataset and made following observations: 1) Pre-Trained LM can significantly boost both the fluency and logical fidelity metrics, 2) RL and Adversarial Training are trading fluency for fidelity, 3) Coarse-to-Fine generation can help partially alleviate the fidelity issue while maintaining high language fluency. The code and data are available at \url{https://github.com/wenhuchen/LogicNLG}.

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