ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation

TL;DR

ALTER is a tool designed to assist in natural language generation tasks by providing traceable, flexible text rewriting support, including revision history and feedback mechanisms, to improve paraphrasing, simplification, and style transfer.

Contribution

It introduces a novel auxiliary text rewriting tool with revision history and feedback features to aid research and development in natural language generation.

Findings

Enhanced rewriting traceability and feedback support

Facilitates research in paraphrasing, simplification, and style transfer

Potential to improve quality and efficiency of NLG tasks

Abstract

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.