Code for "Word Embedding Attention Network: Generating Words by Querying Distributed Word Representations for Paraphrase Generation" [pdf]

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Python 3.6
• Pytorch 1.0.0
• allennlp 0.7.2
• torchfile

• Step 1: Download the PWKP dataset and put it in the folder data/.
• Step 2: Preprocess the dataset

cd preprocess/
python3 process_pkwp.py

• Step 1: Train a model

python3 run.py -gpu 0 -mode train -dir save_path

• Step 2: Restore and evaluate the model with the BLEU metric

python3 run.py -gpu 0 -mode evaluate -restore save_path/best.th

The code is currently non-deterministic due to various GPU ops, so you are likely to end up with a slightly better or worse evaluation. We provide a pretrained model to reproduce the results reported in our paper.

Hopefully the codes and the datasets are useful for the future research. If you use the above codes or datasets for your research, please kindly cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{wean,
  author    = {Shuming Ma and Xu Sun and Wei Li and Sujian Li and Wenjie Li and Xuancheng Ren},
  title     = {Word Embedding Attention Network: Generating Words by Querying Distributed Word 
	       Representations for Paraphrase Generation},
  booktitle = {{NAACL} {HLT} 2018, The 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter
	       of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
  year      = {2018}
}