# Text revision in Scientific Writing Assistance: An Overview

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16726 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.16726/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Mar 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02155/) (2022)
- [Read, Revise, Repeat: A System Demonstration for Human-in-the-loop Iterative Text Revision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03685/) (2022)
- [Does Multi-Encoder Help? A Case Study on Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.03393/) (2020)
- [arXivEdits: Understanding the Human Revision Process in Scientific Writing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.15067/) (2022)
- [Text Revision by On-the-Fly Representation Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.07359/) (2022)
- [Diamonds in the Rough: Generating Fluent Sentences from Early-Stage Drafts for Academic Writing Assistance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09180/) (2019)
- [Learn To Remember: Transformer with Recurrent Memory for Document-Level Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01546/) (2022)
- [Langsmith: An Interactive Academic Text Revision System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.04332/) (2020)
- [Modeling Discourse Structure for Document-level Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.04721/) (2020)
- [A baseline revisited: Pushing the limits of multi-segment models for context-aware translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10906/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Towards Real-World Writing Assistance: A Chinese Character Checking Benchmark with Faked and Misspelled Characters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.11268/) (2023)
- [ScholaWrite: A Dataset of End-to-End Scholarly Writing Process](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.02904/) (2025)
- [From Hypothesis to Publication: A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Driven Research Support Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.01424/) (2025)
- [Identifying Reliable Evaluation Metrics for Scientific Text Revision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.04772/) (2025)
- [APRES: An Agentic Paper Revision and Evaluation System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.03142/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Writing a scientific article is a challenging task as it is a highly codified genre. Good writing skills are essential to properly convey ideas and results of research work. Since the majority of scientific articles are currently written in English, this exercise is all the more difficult for non-native English speakers as they additionally have to face language issues. This article aims to provide an overview of text revision in writing assistance in the scientific domain. We will examine the specificities of scientific writing, including the format and conventions commonly used in research articles. Additionally, this overview will explore the various types of writing assistance tools available for text revision. Despite the evolution of the technology behind these tools through the years, from rule-based approaches to deep neural-based ones, challenges still exist (tools' accessibility, limited consideration of the context, inexplicit use of discursive information, etc.)