Reviews: Adversarial Text Generation via Feature-Mover's Distance

Neural Information Processing Systems 

The authors introduce a new variation of GAN that is claimed to be suitable for text generation. The proposed method relies on a new optimal transport–based distance metric on the feature space learned by the "discriminator". The idea is sound and seems to be novel. The text is well written and easy to follow. Overall, I like the ideas in the paper but I think that the experiments are not robust, which makes it difficult to judge if the current method represents a real advance over the previous GAN models for text generation. Some questions/comments about the experiments: (1) For the generic text generation, why not using datasets that have been used in other works: Penn Treebank, IMDB? (2) For generic text generation why the authors have not compared their results with MaskGAN?