Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work

Arlene Casey, Bonnie Webber, Dorota Glowacka


Abstract
The ability to produce high-quality publishable material is critical to academic success but many Post-Graduate students struggle to learn to do so. While recent years have seen an increase in tools designed to provide feedback on aspects of writing, one aspect that has so far been neglected is the Related Work section of academic research papers. To address this, we have trained a supervised classifier on a corpus of 94 Related Work sections and evaluated it against a manually annotated gold standard. The classifier uses novel features pertaining to citation types and co-reference, along with patterns found from studying Related Works. We show that these novel features contribute to classifier performance with performance being favourable compared to other similar works that classify author intentions and consider feedback for academic writing.
Anthology ID:
R19-1021
Volume:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
Month:
September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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RANLP
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Publisher:
INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
178–187
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/R19-1021
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_021
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Arlene Casey, Bonnie Webber, and Dorota Glowacka. 2019. Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 178–187, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work (Casey et al., RANLP 2019)
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