Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks

Understand

Large language models have introduced exciting new opportunities and challenges in designing and developing new AI-assisted writing support tools.

• Recent work has shown that leveraging this new technology can transform writing in many scenarios such as ideation during creative writing, editing support, and summarization.
• However, AI-supported expository writing--including real-world tasks like scholars writing literature reviews or doctors writing progress notes--is relatively understudied.
• In this position paper, we argue that developing AI supports for expository writing has unique and exciting research challenges and can lead to high real-world impacts.