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EarlySciRev: A Dataset of Early-Stage Scientific Revisions Extracted from LaTeX Writing Traces
L\'eane Jourdan, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Yannis Chupin, Marah Baccari, Florian Boudin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28515
arXiv:2603.28515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific writing is an iterative process that generates rich revision traces, yet publicly available resources typically expose only final or near-final versions of papers. This limits empirical study of revision behaviour and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for scientific writing. We introduce EarlySciRev, a dataset of early-stage scientific text revisions automatically extracted from arXiv LaTeX source files. Our key observation is that commented-out text in LaTeX often preserves discarded or alternative formulations written by the authors themselves. By aligning commented segments with nearby final text, we extract paragraph-level candidate revision pairs and apply LLM-based filtering to retain genuine revisions. Starting from 1.28M candidate pairs, our pipeline yields 578k validated revision pairs, grounded in authentic early drafting traces. We additionally provide a human-annotated benchmark for revision detection. EarlySciRev complements existing resources focused on late-stage revisions or synthetic rewrites and supports research on scientific writing dynamics, revision modelling, and LLM-assisted editing.
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I'm actually believing this, the main reason "AI" hype has become this big is tech people being impressed by it "writing code".
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from my link log —
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https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/14/writing-a-postgres-sql-pretty-printer-in-rust-part-1/
saved 2021-03-18

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