ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation
This tool addresses the problem of inefficient text rewriting for researchers and annotators in natural language generation, but it is incremental as it builds on existing rewriting processes.
The authors tackled the challenge of facilitating text rewriting for natural language generation tasks by developing ALTER, a tool that records word-level revision histories and provides flexible auxiliary edit support, resulting in a tool that aids annotators in tasks like paraphrasing and text style transfer.
In this paper, we describe ALTER, an auxiliary text rewriting tool that facilitates the rewriting process for natural language generation tasks, such as paraphrasing, text simplification, fairness-aware text rewriting, and text style transfer. Our tool is characterized by two features, i) recording of word-level revision histories and ii) flexible auxiliary edit support and feedback to annotators. The text rewriting assist and traceable rewriting history are potentially beneficial to the future research of natural language generation.