Our paper was accepted for presentation at AAAI 2021.
【Information】Edison Marrese-Taylor, Machel Reid and Yutaka Matsuo. Variational Inference for Learning Representations of Natural Language Edits. Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21). February 2021.
【Title】Variational Inference for Learning Representations of Natural Language Edits
【Authors】Edison Marrese-Taylor, Machel Reid, Yutaka Matsuo
【Overview】Document editing has become a pervasive component of the production of information, with version control systems enabling edits to be efficiently stored and applied. In light of this, the task of learning distributed representations of edits has been recently proposed. With this in mind, we propose a novel approach that employs variational inference to learn a continuous latent space of vector representations to capture the underlying semantic information with regard to the document editing process. We achieve this by introducing a latent variable to explicitly model the aforementioned features. This latent variable is then combined with a document representation to guide the generation of an edited-version of this document. Additionally, to facilitate standardized automatic evaluation of edit representations, which has heavily relied on direct human input thus far, we also propose a suite of downstream tasks, PEER, specifically designed to measure the quality of edit representations in the context of Natural Language Processing.
