The significance of novice researchers acquiring proficiency in writing abstracts has been extensively documented in the field of higher education, where they often encounter challenges in this process. Traditionally, students have been advised to enroll in writing training courses as a means to develop their abstract writing skills. Nevertheless, this approach frequently falls short in providing students with personalized and adaptable feedback on their abstract writing. To address this gap, we initially conducted a formative study to ascertain the user requirements for an abstract writing training tool. Subsequently, we proposed a domain-specific abstract writing training tool called ALens, which employs rhetorical structure parsing to identify key concepts, evaluates abstract drafts based on linguistic features, and employs visualization techniques to analyze the writing patterns of exemplary abstracts. A comparative user study involving an alternative abstract writing training tool has been conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach.
翻译:新手研究者掌握摘要写作能力的重要性已在高等教育领域得到广泛论证,但他们在这一过程中常面临诸多挑战。传统上,学生通常被建议参加写作培训课程以培养摘要写作技能。然而,这种方法往往难以向学生提供个性化、可调整的摘要写作反馈。为弥补这一不足,我们首先开展了一项形成性研究以明确用户对摘要写作训练工具的需求,继而提出名为ALens的领域特异性摘要写作训练工具——该工具通过修辞结构解析识别核心概念,基于语言特征评估摘要初稿,并采用可视化技术分析典范摘要的写作模式。通过一项与替代性摘要写作训练工具的对比用户研究,验证了本方法的有效性。