Conscious Natural Text Generation

Abstract

The “Conscious Natural Text Generation” project (CORTEX, grant ref. PID2021-123956OB-I00) investigates how Natural Language Generation (NLG) architectures can be improved so that they can exploit external and commonsense knowledge, and integrate it in a controllable manner (i.e., determining what knowledge to include and how to include it) when generating new text. Our main scientific objective is, therefore, to investigate and propose novel NLG architectures that integrate different types of knowledge to automatically produce reliable, truthful and quality texts, whose information complies with the principles of objectivity and plurality, thereby minimizing bias or manipulated content. The new generation of NLG systems obtained from CORTEX will significantly improve the semantic quality of the generated text, preventing, among other phenomena, the inclusion of invented facts that do not match reality (i.e., hallucination).