@inproceedings{bosselut2018discourse-aware, author = {Bosselut, Antoine and Celikyilmaz, Asli and He, Xiaodong and Gao, Jianfeng and Huang, Po-Sen and Choi, Yejin}, title = {Discourse-Aware Neural Rewards for Coherent Text Generation}, booktitle = {2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {July}, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate the use of discourse-aware rewards with reinforcement learning to guide a model to generate long, coherent text. In particular, we propose to learn neural rewards to model cross-sentence ordering as a means to approximate desired discourse structure. Empirical results demonstrate that a generator trained with the learned reward produces more coherent and less repetitive text than models trained with cross entropy or with reinforcement learning with commonly used scores as rewards.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/discourse-aware-neural-rewards-coherent-text-generation/}, edition = {2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)}, }