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Refocusing on Relevance: Personalization in NLG

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Dudy, Shiran, Bedrick, Steven, Webber, Bonnie·2021·Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Many NLG tasks such as summarization, dialogue response, or open domain question answering focus primarily on a source text in order to generate a target response.This standard approach falls short, however, when a user's intent or context of work is not easily recoverable based solely on that source texta scenario that we argue is more of the rule than the exception.In this work, we argue that NLG systems in general should place a much higher level of emphasis on making use of additional context, and suggest that relevance (as used in Information Retrieval) be thought of as a crucial tool for designing user-oriented text-generating tasks.We further discuss possible harms and hazards around such personalization, and argue that value-sensitive design represents a crucial path forward through these challenges.

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Authors
Dudy, S., Bedrick, S., & Webber, B.
Affiliations
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Published
2021
Volume
2021
Pages
5190-5202
OpenAlex
W3200437427
Cited by
17
References
70
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 3
FWCI
1.61
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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cc-by
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  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (2019805)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC015999)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
Keywords
natural language generation, personalization, relevance, user intention, value-sensitive design

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