Lexical Complexity Controlled Sentence Generation

11/26/2022
by   Jinran Nie, et al.
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Text generation rarely considers the control of lexical complexity, which limits its more comprehensive practical application. We introduce a novel task of lexical complexity controlled sentence generation, which aims at keywords to sentence generation with desired complexity levels. It has enormous potential in domains such as grade reading, language teaching and acquisition. The challenge of this task is to generate fluent sentences only using the words of given complexity levels. We propose a simple but effective approach for this task based on complexity embedding. Compared with potential solutions, our approach fuses the representations of the word complexity levels into the model to get better control of lexical complexity. And we demonstrate the feasibility of the approach for both training models from scratch and fine-tuning the pre-trained models. To facilitate the research, we develop two datasets in English and Chinese respectively, on which extensive experiments are conducted. Results show that our approach better controls lexical complexity and generates higher quality sentences than baseline methods.

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