Towards AI-assisted Academic Writing

Daniel J. Liebling; Malcolm Kane; Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin; Ian Lang; Subhashini Venugopalan; Michael Brenner

doi:10.18653/v1/2025.aisd-main.4

Towards AI-assisted Academic Writing

Daniel J. Liebling, Malcolm Kane, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ian Lang, Subhashini Venugopalan, Michael Brenner

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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.

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Editors:: Peter Jansen, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Harsh Trivedi, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Tom Hope, Tushar Khot, Doug Downey, Eric Horvitz
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Towards AI-assisted Academic Writing (Liebling et al., AISD 2025)

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Daniel J. Liebling, Malcolm Kane, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ian Lang, Subhashini Venugopalan, and Michael Brenner. 2025. Towards AI-assisted Academic Writing. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on AI and Scientific Discovery: Directions and Opportunities, pages 31–45, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.