@inproceedings{jiang-etal-2025-archidocgen,
    title = "{A}rchi{D}oc{G}en: Multi-Agent Framework for Expository Document Generation in the Architectural Industry",
    author = "Jiang, Junjie  and
      Wu, Haodong  and
      Zhang, Yongqi  and
      Guo, Songyue  and
      Liu, Bingcen  and
      Cao, Caleb Chen  and
      Shao, Ruizhe  and
      Guan, Chao  and
      Xu, Peng  and
      Chen, Lei",
    editor = "Rehm, Georg  and
      Li, Yunyao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.acl-industry.43/",
    pages = "605--618",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-288-6",
    abstract = "The architectural industry produces extensive documents, including method statements{---}expository documents that integrate multi-source data into actionable guidance. Manual drafting however is labor-intensive and time-consuming. This paper introduces ArchiDocGen, a multi-agent framework automating method statement generation. Unlike traditional approaches relying on static templates or single-pass generation, ArchiDocGen decomposes the task into three steps: outline generation, section-based content generation, and polishing, each handled by specialized agents. To provide domain expertise, ArchiDocGen employs a section-based retriever to fetch and synthesize relevant documents from its custom knowledge base. Each section is generated through iterative reasoning of a section-based chain-of-thought (SeCoT) scheme, followed by refinement to meet professional standards. To evaluate the generated method statements, we partner with the industry to establish a multi-dimensional evaluation system by combining automatic and empirical methods. Experiments show that ArchiDocGen achieves 4.38 ContentScore, excelling in specialization, completeness, organization, and clarity. Additionally, a web-based application for ArchiDocGen is developed and deployed with industry partners."
}