TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Jiayi AU - Cui, Zhi AU - Xia, Xiaoqiang AU - Guo, Yalong AU - Li, Yanran AU - Wei, Chen AU - Cui, Jianwei PY - 2021/05/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Writing Polishment with Simile: Task, Dataset and A Neural Approach JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence JA - AAAI VL - 35 IS - 16 SE - AAAI Technical Track on Speech and Natural Language Processing III DO - 10.1609/aaai.v35i16.17691 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17691 SP - 14383-14392 AB - A simile is a figure of speech that directly makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things, e.g. ``Reading papers can be dull sometimes,like watching grass grow". Human writers often interpolate appropriate similes into proper locations of the plain text to vivify their writings. However, none of existing work has explored neural simile interpolation, including both locating and generation. In this paper, we propose a new task of Writing Polishment with Simile (WPS) to investigate whether machines are able to polish texts with similes as we human do. Accordingly, we design a two-staged Locate&Gen model based on transformer architecture. Our model firstly locates where the simile interpolation should happen, and then generates a location-specific simile. We also release a large-scale Chinese Simile (CS) dataset containing 5 million similes with context. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of WPS task and shed light on the future research directions towards better automatic text polishment. ER -