Richard Shin, Christopher Lin, Sam Thomson, Charles Chen, Subhro Roy, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Jason Eisner, Benjamin Van Durme
| Challenge: | Large pretrained language models excel at generating natural language, but they are not efficient for task specific semantic parsing. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large pretrained language models as few-shot semantic parsers . they paraphrase inputs into a controlled sublanguage resembling English . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate surprisingly accurate models on multiple tasks with minimal code and data. |
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