Challenge: Current compositional generalization models lose syntax context when learning a flat input . a new method to improve compositional globalization is proposed to ground structured predictions with an attention mechanism.
Approach: They propose a method to ground structured predictions by a structure-based attention mechanism.
Outcome: The proposed method performs competitively on the Compositional Freebase Questions dataset.

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