TY - GEN

T1 - To Revise or Not to Revise

T2 - 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023

AU - Skitalinskaya, Gabriella

AU - Wachsmuth, Henning

N1 - Funding Information: We thank Andreas Breiter for his valuable feedback on early drafts, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This work was partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG, German Research Foundation) under project number 374666841, SFB 1342.

PY - 2023/7

Y1 - 2023/7

N2 - Optimizing the phrasing of argumentative text is crucial in higher education and professional development. However, assessing whether and how the different claims in a text should be revised is a hard task, especially for novice writers. In this work, we explore the main challenges to identifying argumentative claims in need of specific revisions. By learning from collaborative editing behaviors in online debates, we seek to capture implicit revision patterns in order to develop approaches aimed at guiding writers in how to further improve their arguments. We systematically compare the ability of common word embedding models to capture the differences between different versions of the same text, and we analyze their impact on various types of writing issues. To deal with the noisy nature of revision-based corpora, we propose a new sampling strategy based on revision distance. Opposed to approaches from prior work, such sampling can be done without employing additional annotations and judgments. Moreover, we provide evidence that using contextual information and domain knowledge can further improve prediction results. How useful a certain type of context is, depends on the issue the claim is suffering from, though.

AB - Optimizing the phrasing of argumentative text is crucial in higher education and professional development. However, assessing whether and how the different claims in a text should be revised is a hard task, especially for novice writers. In this work, we explore the main challenges to identifying argumentative claims in need of specific revisions. By learning from collaborative editing behaviors in online debates, we seek to capture implicit revision patterns in order to develop approaches aimed at guiding writers in how to further improve their arguments. We systematically compare the ability of common word embedding models to capture the differences between different versions of the same text, and we analyze their impact on various types of writing issues. To deal with the noisy nature of revision-based corpora, we propose a new sampling strategy based on revision distance. Opposed to approaches from prior work, such sampling can be done without employing additional annotations and judgments. Moreover, we provide evidence that using contextual information and domain knowledge can further improve prediction results. How useful a certain type of context is, depends on the issue the claim is suffering from, though.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174380849&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.880

DO - 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.880

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85174380849

T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

SP - 15799

EP - 15816

BT - Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Y2 - 9 July 2023 through 14 July 2023

ER -