# A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06553 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06553/

## Key facts

- Cited by 20 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 16 May 2018.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Natural language generation lies at the core of generative dialogue systems and conversational agents. We describe an ensemble neural language generator, and present several novel methods for data representation and augmentation that yield improved results in our model. We test the model on three datasets in the restaurant, TV and laptop domains, and report both objective and subjective evaluations of our best model. Using a range of automatic metrics, as well as human evaluators, we show that our approach achieves better results than state-of-the-art models on the same datasets.