Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism

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


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%.
Anthology ID:
P18-2042
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Venue:
ACL
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
260–265
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2042
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2042
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Qingyun Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Lifu Huang, Spencer Whitehead, Boliang Zhang, Heng Ji, and Kevin Knight. 2018. Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 260–265, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism (Wang et al., ACL 2018)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/P18-2042.pdf
Poster:
 P18-2042.Poster.pdf
Code
 EagleW/ACL_titles_abstracts_dataset +  additional community code
Data
ACL Title and Abstract Dataset