Foundation Models for Text Generation
Gerhard Paaß, Sven Giesselbach · Artificial intelligence: foundations, theory, and algorithms/Artificial intelligence: Foundations, theory, and algorithms · 2023
Abstract This chapter discusses Foundation Models for Text Generation. This includes systems for Document Retrieval, which accept a query and return an ordered list of text documents from a document collection, often evaluating the similarity of embeddings to retrieve relevant text passages. Question Answering systems are given a natural language question and must provide an answer, usually in natural language. Machine Translation models take a text in one language and translate it into another language. Text Summarization systems receive a long document and generate a short summary covering the most important contents of the document. Text Generation models use an autoregressive Language Model to generate a longer story, usually starting from an initial text input. Dialog systems have the task of conducting a dialog with a human partner, typically not limited to a specific topic.