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Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism

15 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.06064archive 2025-07-28

Qingyun Wang, Zhi-Hao Zhou, Lifu Huang, Spencer Whitehead, Boliang Zhang, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight

We present a paper abstract writing system based on an attentive neural sequence-to-sequence model that can take a title as input and automatically generate an abstract. We design a novel Writing-editing Network that can attend to both the title and the previously generated abstract drafts and then iteratively revise and polish the abstract. With two series of Turing tests, where the human judges are asked to distinguish the system-generated abstracts from human-written ones, our system passes Turing tests by junior domain experts at a rate up to 30% and by non-expert at a rate up to 80%.

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EagleW/ACL_titles_abstracts_dataset officialmentioned in paper report
EagleW/Writing-editing-Network mentioned in paperpytorch report

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Paper generationText Generation

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ACL Title and Abstract Dataset

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Paper generation ACL Title and Abstract Dataset Writing-editing Network METEOR 14.0 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Paper generation ACL Title and Abstract Dataset Writing-editing Network ROUGE-L 20.3 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

GRULSTMSeq2SeqSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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