Abstract
We propose a novel text editing task, referred to as fact-based text editing, in which the goal is to revise a given document to better describe the facts in a knowledge base (e.g., several triples). The task is important in practice because reflecting the truth is a common requirement in text editing. First, we propose a method for automatically generating a dataset for research on fact-based text editing, where each instance consists of a draft text, a revised text, and several facts represented in triples. We apply the method into two public table-to-text datasets, obtaining two new datasets consisting of 233k and 37k instances, respectively. Next, we propose a new neural network architecture for fact-based text editing, called FactEditor, which edits a draft text by referring to given facts using a buffer, a stream, and a memory. A straightforward approach to address the problem would be to employ an encoder-decoder model. Our experimental results on the two datasets show that FactEditor outperforms the encoder-decoder approach in terms of fidelity and fluency. The results also show that FactEditor conducts inference faster than the encoder-decoder approach.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.17
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 171–182
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.17
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.17
- Cite (ACL):
- Hayate Iso, Chao Qiao, and Hang Li. 2020. Fact-based Text Editing. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 171–182, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Fact-based Text Editing (Iso et al., ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2020.acl-main.17.pdf
- Code
- isomap/factedit
- Data
- RotoEdit, WebEdit