Diamonds in the Rough: Generating Fluent Sentences from Early-Stage Drafts for Academic Writing Assistance

Understand

The writing process consists of several stages such as drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.

• Studies on writing assistance, such as grammatical error correction (GEC), have mainly focused on sentence editing and proofreading, where surface-level issues such as typographical, spelling, or grammatical errors should be corrected.
• We broaden this focus to include the earlier revising stage, where sentences require adjustment to the information included or major rewriting and propose Sentence-level Revision (SentRev) as a new writing assistance task.
• Well-performing systems in this task can help inexperienced authors by producing fluent, complete sentences given their rough, incomplete drafts.