Syntactically-Informed Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Non-Parallel Data (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on syntactically controlled paraphrase generation rely on large-scale parallel data. |
| Approach: | They propose a syntactically-informed unsupervised paraphrasing model based on conditional variational auto-encoder which can generate texts in a specified syntastic structure. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate diverse paraphrases with specified syntactic structure using non-parallel data. |
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