Challenge: Existing methods for text infilling focus on the infill length of blanks and attribute relevance, but attribute-aware content can be more useful.
Approach: They propose an attribute-aware text infilling method via a Pre-trained language model which contains a text in filling component and a plug-and-play discriminator.
Outcome: The proposed method improves attribute relevance without decreasing text fluency on three open-source datasets.

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