Automatically Ranked Russian Paraphrase Corpus for Text Generation
This addresses the data scarcity problem for Russian paraphrase generation, enabling end-to-end text generation solutions, though it is incremental as it builds on existing methods for a specific language.
The authors tackled the lack of a large-scale Russian paraphrase corpus for text generation by automatically developing and ranking a new corpus (ParaPhraser Plus), which they used in generation experiments with the Universal Transformer architecture, achieving results that demonstrate its utility.
The article is focused on automatic development and ranking of a large corpus for Russian paraphrase generation which proves to be the first corpus of such type in Russian computational linguistics. Existing manually annotated paraphrase datasets for Russian are limited to small-sized ParaPhraser corpus and ParaPlag which are suitable for a set of NLP tasks, such as paraphrase and plagiarism detection, sentence similarity and relatedness estimation, etc. Due to size restrictions, these datasets can hardly be applied in end-to-end text generation solutions. Meanwhile, paraphrase generation requires a large amount of training data. In our study we propose a solution to the problem: we collect, rank and evaluate a new publicly available headline paraphrase corpus (ParaPhraser Plus), and then perform text generation experiments with manual evaluation on automatically ranked corpora using the Universal Transformer architecture.