FRUIT: Faithfully Reflecting Updated Information in Text

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Paper Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=TcbIyMYNNbj

Paper Type: Long paper (up to eight pages of content + unlimited references and appendices)

Abstract: Textual knowledge bases such as Wikipedia require considerable effort to keep up to date and consistent. While automated writing assistants could potentially ease this burden, the problem of suggesting edits grounded in external knowledge has been under-explored. In this paper, we introduce the novel generation task of *faithfully reflecting updated information in text* (FRUIT) where the goal is to update an existing article given new evidence. We release the FRUIT-WIKI dataset, a collection of over 170K distantly supervised data produced from pairs of Wikipedia snapshots, along with our data generation pipeline and a gold evaluation set of 914 instances whose edits are guaranteed to be supported by the evidence. We provide benchmark results for popular generation systems as well as EDIT5 -- a T5-based approach tailored to editing we introduce that establishes the state of the art. Our analysis shows that developing models that can update articles faithfully requires new capabilities for neural generation models, and opens doors to many new applications.

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Copyright Consent Signature (type Name Or NA If Not Transferrable): Robert Lockwood Logan IV

Copyright Consent Name And Address: University of California, Irvine