WikiREVIEW: A Multi-Perspective Review Framework for Automatic Wiki-Style Article Generation

Abstract

As a knowledge-intensive and challenging task, automatic generation of long-form wiki-style articles has garnered increasing attention from researchers due to its ability to efficiently integrate, organize and present vast amounts of both structured and unstructured knowledge. To the best of our knowledge, most of the existing mainstream state-of-the-art methods for automatic wiki-style article generation typically follow a "one-shot generation" paradigm: given a topic, (1) first generating a structured outline, (2) then independently and in parallel generating the content of each outline chapter in a one-shot using the chapter title and references. However, the core limitation of the paradigm lies in its disregards inter-chapter correlation and lacks post-generation revision and refinement, resulting in content redundancy, weak relevance and logical inconsistency. To address these issues, we propose WikiREVIEW, a novel multi-perspective review framework for automatic wiki-style article generation. Specifically, our proposed method introduces multi-perspective experts to review the content of each outline chapter at both chapter and paragraph levels following the initial generation, offering evaluation feedback and continuously refining the numerous deficiencies in the initial long-form article, ultimately achieving high-quality wiki-style article generation. Extensive experimental results on the public English dataset FreshWiki and our own constructed high-quality Chinese dataset ChineseWiki, demonstrate that our proposed WikiREVIEW significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art automatic wiki-style article generation methods across all automatic evaluation metrics and human evaluation.