Unnatural Language Processing: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Natural Language Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13645v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:41:00 GMT
• Title: Unnatural Language Processing: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Natural Language Data
• Authors: Alana Marzoev, Samuel Madden, M. Frans Kaashoek, Michael Cafarella, Jacob Andreas
• Abstract summary: We introduce a technique for -simulation-to-real'' transfer in language understanding problems. Our approach matches or outperforms state-of-the-art models trained on natural language data in several domains.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large, human-annotated datasets are central to the development of natural language processing models. Collecting these datasets can be the most challenging part of the development process. We address this problem by introducing a general purpose technique for ``simulation-to-real'' transfer in language understanding problems with a delimited set of target behaviors, making it possible to develop models that can interpret natural utterances without natural training data. We begin with a synthetic data generation procedure, and train a model that can accurately interpret utterances produced by the data generator. To generalize to natural utterances, we automatically find projections of natural language utterances onto the support of the synthetic language, using learned sentence embeddings to define a distance metric. With only synthetic training data, our approach matches or outperforms state-of-the-art models trained on natural language data in several domains. These results suggest that simulation-to-real transfer is a practical framework for developing NLP applications, and that improved models for transfer might provide wide-ranging improvements in downstream tasks.

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