QuickEdit: Editing Text & Translations by Crossing Words Out

David Grangier, Michael Auli


Abstract
We propose a framework for computer-assisted text editing. It applies to translation post-editing and to paraphrasing. Our proposal relies on very simple interactions: a human editor modifies a sentence by marking tokens they would like the system to change. Our model then generates a new sentence which reformulates the initial sentence by avoiding marked words. The approach builds upon neural sequence-to-sequence modeling and introduces a neural network which takes as input a sentence along with change markers. Our model is trained on translation bitext by simulating post-edits. We demonstrate the advantage of our approach for translation post-editing through simulated post-edits. We also evaluate our model for paraphrasing through a user study.
Anthology ID:
N18-1025
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
272–282
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1025/
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1025
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David Grangier and Michael Auli. 2018. QuickEdit: Editing Text & Translations by Crossing Words Out. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 272–282, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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QuickEdit: Editing Text & Translations by Crossing Words Out (Grangier & Auli, NAACL 2018)
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