Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism

Qingyun Wang; Zhihao Zhou; Lifu Huang; Spencer Whitehead; Boliang Zhang; Heng Ji; Kevin Knight

doi:10.18653/v1/p18-2042

Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism

Qingyun Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Lifu Huang, Spencer Whitehead, Boliang Zhang, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight

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Abstract

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%.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers)
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	260-265
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781948087346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-2042
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: Jul 15 2018 → Jul 20 2018

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Name	ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
Volume	2

Conference

Conference	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	7/15/18 → 7/20/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Wang, Q., Zhou, Z., Huang, L., Whitehead, S., Zhang, B., Ji, H., & Knight, K. (2018). Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism. In ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers) (pp. 260-265). (ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers); Vol. 2). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-2042

Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism. / Wang, Qingyun; Zhou, Zhihao; Huang, Lifu et al.
ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018. p. 260-265 (ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers); Vol. 2).

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Wang, Q, Zhou, Z, Huang, L, Whitehead, S, Zhang, B, Ji, H & Knight, K 2018, Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism. in ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers). ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers), vol. 2, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 260-265, 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, 7/15/18. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-2042

Wang Q, Zhou Z, Huang L, Whitehead S, Zhang B, Ji H et al. Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism. In ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2018. p. 260-265. (ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)). doi: 10.18653/v1/p18-2042

Wang, Qingyun ; Zhou, Zhihao ; Huang, Lifu et al. / Paper abstract writing through editing mechanism. ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018. pp. 260-265 (ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)).

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