Text-to-Text Generation

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Text-to-Text Generation

• Graesser, Rus, Stent, Walker, White

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Input

• Text
• Attractive to the Question Answering
• Attractive to DUC community
• Attractive to the Coreference/Referring
  expression community
• Semantic Representation
• PropBank

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Types of Tasks

• Text-to-text regeneration for multi-documents
  with some shared content
• SCUs or nuggets
• Single-text regeneration
• Question Generation and Answer Regeneration
• Topic Sentence - Paragraph Regeneration /
  Sentence Reordering

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Aim of The Shared Task

• Scientifically and Linguistically interesting
  issues
• Lexical choice
• Sentence planning
• Aggregation
• Content and constituent ordering and columns
• Interested Communities/Broader Impacts
• Language Generation community
• Question Answering community
• Summarization community
• Discourse processing
• Educational Community

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Evaluation

• Manual
• Independent judges
• Judges being participants
• Task-based evaluation

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Resources

• DUC data (with SCUs)
• QA TREC Question-Answer pairs
• ITS data from AutoTutor
• PropBank
• ICLE
• ISLE

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Thank You!