Sentence-Level Content Planning and Style Specificationfor Neural Text Generation
Table 2: Sentence style distribution for argument and Wikipedia datasets.
['[EMPTY]', 'Claim', 'Premise', 'Functional']
Sentence Style Label Construction. Claim is a proposition, usually containing one or two talking points, e.g., “ I believe foreign aid is a useful bargaining chip”; Premise contains supporting arguments with reasoning or examples; Functional is usually a generic statement, e.g., “ I understand what you said”. For training, we employ a list of rules extended from the claim detection method by \newcitelevy-etal-2018-towards to automatically construct a style label for each sentence. We distinguish sentence-level styles based on language complexity, which is approximated by sentence length.