Challenge: Existing methods for natural language generation are pre-trained on text-only corpora, resulting in visual commonsense.
Approach: They propose a method that makes pre-trained language models learn to imagine for visually-augmented natural language generation.
Outcome: The proposed method is compatible with Transformer-based architecture.

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Challenge: Knowledge-enriched text generation poses unique challenges in modeling and learning . a roadmap will outline the state-of-the-art methods to tackle these challenges .
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