%0 Conference Proceedings %T ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation %A Xu, Qiongkai %A Xu, Chenchen %A Qu, Lizhen %Y Padó, Sebastian %Y Huang, Ruihong %S Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations %D 2019 %8 November %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Hong Kong, China %F xu-etal-2019-alter %X 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. %R 10.18653/v1/D19-3003 %U https://aclanthology.org/D19-3003 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-3003 %P 13-18