AugNLG: Few-shot Natural Language Generation using Self-trained Data Augmentation (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large-scale conversational systems typically generate unnatural, robotic responses using template-based approaches. |
| Approach: | They propose a data augmentation approach that combines a self-trained neural retrieval model with a few-shot learned NLU model to automatically create MR-to-Text data from open-domain texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the FewshotWOZ data in both BLEU and Slot Error Rate. |
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