Natural Language Generation

SemOManager.py - Semantic Output

Copyright CUED Dialogue Systems Group 2015 - 2017

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CUED Imports/Dependencies:

import utils.Settings
import ontology.OntologyUtils
import utils.ContextLogger

class semo.SemOManager.SemO

Interface class for a single domain langauge generator. Responsible for generating a natural langauge sentence from a dialogue act representation. To create your own SemO methods, derive from this class.

generate(act)

Main generation method: mapping from system act to natural language :param act: the system act to generate :type act: str :returns: the natural language realisation of the given system act

class semo.SemOManager.SemOManager

SemO manager for each domain. Independently for each domain you can load a generator. Implementations of actual generators are in other modules

_ensure_booted(domainTag)
The function to ensure the given domain generator is properly loaded
param domainTag

the domain string unique identifier, the domain you operate on.

_load_domains_semo(dstring)

Get from the config file the SemO choice of method for this domain

generate(act, domainTag=None)

Main generation method which maps the given system act into natural langauge realisation. :param domainTag: the domain string unique identifier, the domain you operate on. :act: the system act you want to generate

RuleSemOMethods.py - Classes for all Rule based Generators

Copyright CUED Dialogue Systems Group 2015 - 2017

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CUED Imports/Dependencies:

import semo.SemOManager
import utils.Settings
import utils.DiaAct
import utils.dact
import utils.ContextLogger
import ontology.OntologyUtils

class semo.RuleSemOMethods.PassthroughSemO

Does nothing - simply pass system act directly through.

class semo.RuleSemOMethods.BasicSemO(domainTag=None)

Template-based output generator. Note that the class inheriting from object is important - without this the super method can not be called – This relates to ‘old-style’ and ‘new-style’ classes in python if interested …

Parameters

  • templatefile ([basicsemo]) – The template file to use for generation.

  • emphasis ([basicsemo]) – Generate emphasis tags.

  • emphasisopen ([basicsemo]) – Emphasis open tag (default: &ltEMPH&lt).

  • emphasisclose ([basicsemo]) – Emphasis close tag (default: &lt/EMPH&lt).

class semo.RuleSemOMethods.BasicTemplateRule(scanner)

The template rule corresponds to a single line in a template rules file. This consists of an act (including non-terminals) that the rule applies to with an output string to generate (again including non-terminals). Example:

select(food=$X, food=dontcare) : "Sorry would you like $X food or you dont care";
 self.rue_items = {food: [$X, dontcare]}
class semo.RuleSemOMethods.BasicTemplateFunction(scanner)

A function in the generation rules that converts a group of inputs into an output string. The use of template functions allows for simplification of the generation file as the way a given group of variables is generated can be extended over multiple rules.

The format of the function is:

%functionName($param1, $param2, ...) {
    p1, p2, ... : "Generation output";}
Parameters

scanner (instance) – of Scanner

class semo.RuleSemOMethods.BasicTemplateFunctionRule(scanner)

A single line of a basic template function. This does a conversion of a group of values into a string. e.g. p1, p2, … : “Generation output”

Parameters

scanner (instance) – of Scanner

class semo.RuleSemOMethods.BasicTemplateGenerator(filename)

The basic template generator loads a list of template-based rules from a string. These are then applied on any input dialogue act and used to generate an output string.

Parameters

filename (str) – the template rules file

RNNSemOMethods.py - Interface for all RNN based Generators

Copyright CUED Dialogue Systems Group 2015 - 2017

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CUED Imports/Dependencies:

import semo.SemOManager
import semo.RuleSemOMethods
import semo.RNNLG.generator.net
import utils.Settings
import utils.ContextLogger

class semo.RNNSemOMethods.RNNSemO(domainTag=None)

An interface for RNN-based output generator.

Parameters

  • configuration ([rnnsemo]) – The config file to use for initialising RNNLG

  • file ([rnnsemo] template) – The template file for a default rule-based generator. This rule based generator is used when the RNN generator cannot generate sensible sentences.