# ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06564 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.06564/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 14 Sep 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

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.