ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation

2019/09/14 by Qiongkai Xu, Xu, Qiongkai, Chenchen Xu +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Text Readability and Simplification #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.06564

openalex publication_date 2019/09/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper, we describe ALTER, an auxiliary text rewriting tool that facilitates the rewriting process for natural language generation tasks, such as paraphrasing, text simplification, fairness-aware text rewriting, and text style transfer. Our tool is characterized by two features, i) recording of word-level revision histories and ii) flexible auxiliary edit support and feedback to annotators. The text rewriting assist and traceable rewriting history are potentially beneficial to the future research of natural language generation.

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