Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP

PROGRAM

Monday, January 20, 2025

09:00–09:15Opening Remarks
09:15–10:30Keynote Speech by Cerstin Mahlow
10:30–11:00Morning Coffee Break
 11:00–12:30 Oral Presentations 1
11:00–11:45Chain-of-MetaWriting: Linguistic and Textual Analysis of How Small Language Models Write Young Students Texts
Ioana Buhnila, Georgeta Cislaru and Amalia Todirascu
11:45–12:30Semantic Masking in a Needle-in-a-haystack Test for Evaluating Large Language Model Long-Text Capabilities
Ken Shi and Gerald Penn
12:30–14:00Lunch Break
 14:00–15:30 Oral Presentations 2
14:00–14:45Reading Between the Lines: A dataset and a study on why some texts are tougher than others
Nouran Khallaf, Carlo Eugeni and Serge Sharoff
14:45–15:30ParaRev : Building a dataset for Scientific Paragraph Revision annotated with revision instruction
Léane Jourdan, Florian Boudin, Richard Dufour, Nicolas Hernandez and Akiko Aizawa
15:30–16:00Afternoon Coffee Break
 16:00–18:15 Oral Presentations 3
16:00–16:45Towards an operative definition of creative writing: a preliminary assessment of creativeness in AI and human texts
Chiara Maggi and Andrea Vitaletti
16:45–17:30Decoding Semantic Representations in the Brain Under Language Stimuli with Large Language Models
Anna Sato and Ichiro Kobayashi
17:30–18:15Game Plot Design with an LLM-powered Assistant: An Empirical Study with Game Designers
Seyed Hossein Alavi, Weijia Xu, Nebojsa Jojic, Daniel Kennett, Raymond T. Ng, Sudha Rao, Haiyan Zhang, Bill Dolan and Vered Shwartz
18:15–18:30Closing Remarks