ARIES: A Corpus of Scientific Paper Edits Made in Response to Peer Reviews

Mike D’Arcy, Alexis Ross, Erin Bransom, Bailey Kuehl, Jonathan Bragg, Tom Hope, Doug Downey


Abstract
We introduce the task of automatically revising scientific papers based on peer feedback and release ARIES, a dataset of review comments and their corresponding paper edits. The data is drawn from real reviewer-author interactions from computer science, and we provide labels linking each reviewer comment to the specific paper edits made by the author in response. We automatically create a high-precision silver training set, as well as an expert-labeled test set that shows high inter-annotator agreement. In experiments with 10 models covering the state of the art, we find that they struggle even to identify which edits correspond to a comment—especially when the relationship between the edit and the comment is indirect and requires reasoning to uncover. We also extensively analyze GPT-4’s ability to generate edits given a comment and the original paper. We find that it often succeeds on a superficial level, but tends to rigidly follow the wording of the feedback rather than the underlying intent, and lacks technical details compared to human-written edits.
Anthology ID:
2024.acl-long.377
Volume:
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2024
Address:
Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
6985–7001
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.377
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.377
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Cite (ACL):
Mike D’Arcy, Alexis Ross, Erin Bransom, Bailey Kuehl, Jonathan Bragg, Tom Hope, and Doug Downey. 2024. ARIES: A Corpus of Scientific Paper Edits Made in Response to Peer Reviews. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6985–7001, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ARIES: A Corpus of Scientific Paper Edits Made in Response to Peer Reviews (D’Arcy et al., ACL 2024)
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