Looking back at 2017's 'Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes'

srush_nlp · x · 2026-08-26

Highlights the 2017 paper 'Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes' by Kelvin Guu et al. The paper proposes a generative model that samples a prototype sentence from the training corpus and edits it into a new sentence. This approach improves perplexity and human evaluation scores compared to generation from scratch, yielding interpretable edit vectors.

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