Improving Iterative Text Revision by Learning Where to Edit from Other Revision Tasks (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Iterative text revision improves text quality by fixing grammatical errors, rephrasing for better readability or contextual appropriateness. |
| Approach: | They propose to build an end-to-end text revision system that can iteratively generate helpful edits by explicitly detecting editable spans with their corresponding edit intents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms baselines on other text revision tasks and human evaluations. |
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