Academic editing engine(s) for attribution and revision of scholarly authoring

Inventors

Pividori, Milton • Greene, Casey S.

Assignees

University of Colorado Boulder • University of Pennsylvania • University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Abstract

Example systems and methods for providing an academic editor engine are provided herein. For example, an academic editor engine receives a request to revise a section of a scholarly manuscript. Responsive to the request, the academic editor engine determines a section type for the section. The academic editor engine then generates a prompt based on the section type and provides the prompt and the section to a content generator. The academic editor engine receives a revised section having revisions to the section from the content generator and provides a display of the revised section spatially proximate to the section to a client device. The academic editor engine receives an indication from the client device to accept one or more of the revisions as accepted revisions and generates a revised draft including the accepted revisions and an author attribution to the content generator for the accepted revisions.

Core Innovation

An academic editor engine revises sections of a scholarly manuscript by receiving a request to revise a first section from a first client device. The scholarly manuscript comprises a plurality of sections, and a section type is determined for the first section. A first prompt is generated based on the section type for the first section, and the first prompt and the first section are provided to a machine-based content generator to obtain a first revised section that comprises a plurality of revisions.

The academic editor engine generates a first display of the first revised section spatially proximate to the first section on the first client device. After receiving an indication from the first client device to accept one or more of the plurality of revisions as first accepted revisions, the engine generates a first revised draft of the first section comprising the first accepted revisions and original content.

The first revised draft comprises a first author attribution to the machine-based content generator for the first accepted revisions and a second author attribution to a first user of the first client device for the original content. The workflow includes receiving further revision requests, generating further prompts, providing prompts and revised sections to the machine-based content generator, generating corresponding displays spatially proximate to corresponding sections, receiving acceptance indications, and generating corresponding revised drafts with author attribution reflecting accepted machine-based revisions versus original user-generated content.

Claims Coverage

The independent claims present an academic editor engine workflow for revising a scholarly manuscript section, with inventive features focused on section-type-based prompt generation, machine-based content generation producing a plurality of revisions, spatially proximate revision display for acceptance, and revised draft author attribution distinguishing machine-based accepted revisions from original user content.

Across the independent claims, the inventive concept centers on using section-type-based prompt generation to obtain a machine-based revised section containing a plurality of revisions, presenting the revised section spatially proximate to the original for acceptance, and generating a revised draft that includes author attribution that distinguishes machine-based accepted revisions from original user content, with optional extension to additional revision cycles and comparison displays.

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