Understanding Iterative Revision from Human-Written Text

Understand

Writing is, by nature, a strategic, adaptive, and more importantly, an iterative process.

• A crucial part of writing is editing and revising the text.
• Previous works on text revision have focused on defining edit intention taxonomies within a single domain or developing computational models with a single level of edit granularity, such as sentence-level edits, which differ from human's revision cycles.
• This work describes IteraTeR: the first large-scale, multi-domain, edit-intention annotated corpus of iteratively revised text.