Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes

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• github.com/kelvinguu/neural-editor
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• worksheets.codalab.org/worksheets/0xa915ba2f8b664ddf8537c83bde80cc8c
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• github.com/jiacheng-xu/vmf_vae_nlp
  pytorch★ 0

Abstract

We propose a new generative model of sentences that first samples a prototype sentence from the training corpus and then edits it into a new sentence. Compared to traditional models that generate from scratch either left-to-right or by first sampling a latent sentence vector, our prototype-then-edit model improves perplexity on language modeling and generates higher quality outputs according to human evaluation. Furthermore, the model gives rise to a latent edit vector that captures interpretable semantics such as sentence similarity and sentence-level analogies.

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