QuickEdit: Editing Text & Translations by Crossing Words Out

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.

NAACL'18

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• Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
• Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
• Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes

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