Linguistic Versus Latent Relations for Modeling Coherent Flow in Paragraphs (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | a novel approach to paragraph planning involves a high-level control of different levels of relations between sentences . a proposed model with both forms of relations outperforms baselines in partially conditioned paragraph generation task . |
| Approach: | They propose two models that integrate human-created and latent relations into document-level language models . they focus on paragraph-level plan between sentences to produce coherent text . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform baselines in partially conditioned paragraph generation task. |
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