Towards AI-assisted Academic Writing
This work addresses the need for AI tools to assist researchers in academic writing, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing methods for specific tasks.
The paper tackled the problem of AI-assisted academic writing by developing components for citation recommendation and introduction generation, demonstrating their effectiveness through quantitative evaluations and finding demand for precise AI systems.
We present components of an AI-assisted academic writing system including citation recommendation and introduction writing. The system recommends citations by considering the user's current document context to provide relevant suggestions. It generates introductions in a structured fashion, situating the contributions of the research relative to prior work. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the components through quantitative evaluations. Finally, the paper presents qualitative research exploring how researchers incorporate citations into their writing workflows. Our findings indicate that there is demand for precise AI-assisted writing systems and simple, effective methods for meeting those needs.