2022/06/14 by Eric Malmi, Yue Dong, Malmi, Eric +17 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering Research #Text Readability and Simplification #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.07043
openalex publication_date 2022/06/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Text-editing models have recently become a prominent alternative to seq2seq models for monolingual text-generation tasks such as grammatical error correction, simplification, and style transfer. These tasks share a common trait - they exhibit a large amount of textual overlap between the source and target texts. Text-editing models take advantage of this observation and learn to generate the output by predicting edit operations applied to the source sequence. In contrast, seq2seq models generate outputs word-by-word from scratch thus making them slow at inference time. Text-editing models provide several benefits over seq2seq models including faster inference speed, higher sample efficiency, and better control and interpretability of the outputs. This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of text-editing models and current state-of-the-art approaches, and analyzes their pros and cons. We discuss challenges related to productionization and how these models can be used to mitigate hallucination and bias, both pressing challenges in the field of text generation.