Learning Structural Information for Syntax-Controlled Paraphrase Generation (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Syntax-controlled paraphrase generation aims to produce paraphrase conform to given syntactic patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that captures parent-child and sibling relations and a syntax encoder to capture alignment relations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art in terms of semantic and syntactic quality on two popular benchmark datasets. |
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