Faithfully reflecting updated information in text: Interview with Robert Logan – #NAACL2022 award winner

Robert Logan, and co-authors Alexandre Passos, Sameer Singh and Ming-Wei Chang, won a best new task award at NAACL 2022 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) for their paper FRUIT: Faithfully Reflecting Updated Information in Text. Here, Robert tells us about their methodology, the main contributions of the paper, and ideas for future work. Our paper introduces the new task of faithfully reflecting updated information in text or FRUIT for short. Given an outdated Wikipedia article and new information about the article's subject, the goal is to edit the article's text to be consistent with the new information. Textual knowledge bases such as Wikipedia are essential resources for both humans and machine learning models.