Arlene Casey


2019

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A Framework for Annotating ‘Related Works’ to Support Feedback to Novice Writers
Arlene Casey | Bonnie Webber | Dorota Glowacka
Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Understanding what is expected of academic writing can be difficult for novice writers to assimilate, and recent years have seen several automated tools become available to support academic writing. Our work presents a framework for annotating features of the Related Work section of academic writing, that supports writer feedback.

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Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work
Arlene Casey | Bonnie Webber | Dorota Glowacka
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)

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.