Research Area:  Machine Learning
Generating keyphrases that summarize the main points of a document is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Although existing generative models are capable of predicting multiple keyphrases for an input document as well as determining the number of keyphrases to generate, they still suffer from the problem of generating too few keyphrases. To address this problem, we propose a reinforcement learning (RL) approach for keyphrase generation, with an adaptive reward function that encourages a model to generate both sufficient and accurate keyphrases. Furthermore, we introduce a new evaluation method that incorporates name variations of the ground-truth keyphrases using the Wikipedia knowledge base. Thus, our evaluation method can more robustly evaluate the quality of predicted keyphrases. Extensive experiments on five real-world datasets of different scales demonstrate that our RL approach consistently and significantly improves the performance of the state-of-the-art generative models with both conventional and new evaluation methods.
Keywords:  
Neural
Keyphrase Generation
Reinforcement Learning
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Author(s) Name:  Hou Pong Chan, Wang Chen, Lu Wang, Irwin King
Journal name:  Computer Science
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Publisher name:  arXiv:1906.04106
DOI:  10.48550/arXiv.1906.04106
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Paper Link:   https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04106