Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism
Published in The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), 2018
Qingyun Wang*, Zhihao Zhou*(equal contribution), 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. (ACL 2018).
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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%.
