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CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities

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Lee, Mina, Liang, Percy, Yang, Qian·2022·CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

Large language models (LMs) offer unprecedented language generation capabilities and exciting opportunities for interaction design. However, their highly context-dependent capabilities are difficult to grasp and are often subjectively interpreted. In this paper, we argue that by curating and analyzing large interaction datasets, the HCI community can foster more incisive examinations of LMs’ generative capabilities. Exemplifying this approach, we present CoAuthor, a dataset designed for revealing GPT-3’s capabilities in assisting creative and argumentative writing. CoAuthor captures rich interactions between 63 writers and four instances of GPT-3 across 1445 writing sessions. We demonstrate that CoAuthor can address questions about GPT-3’s language, ideation, and collaboration capabilities, and reveal its contribution as a writing “collaborator” under various definitions of good collaboration. Finally, we discuss how this work may facilitate a more principled discussion around LMs’ promises and pitfalls in relation to interaction design. The dataset and an interface for replaying the writing sessions are publicly available at https://coauthor.stanford.edu.

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    GPT-3's behavior in CoAuthor is representative enough of language models' generative capabilities for interactive writing to inform interaction design.

    “Exemplifying this approach, we present CoAuthor, a dataset designed for revealing GPT-3's capabilities in assisting creative and argumentative writing.”
    “We demonstrate that CoAuthor can address questions about GPT-3's language, ideation, and collaboration capabilities”
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    The recruited crowd workers are adequate proxies for writers in creative and argumentative writing.

    “We recruited 63 crowd workers (writers) from Amazon Mechanical Turk to account for individuals with potentially diferent backgrounds and writing styles.”
    “Among these writers, 63 writers participated in the main round, where 62 writers were native English speakers and one was not.”
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    Most current language models are trained and evaluated on datasets that ignore interactive settings.

    “Most current LMs are trained and evaluated on datasets that do not consider interactive settings.”
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    High-randomness GPT-3 suggestions tend to be more diverse.

    “as they tend to be more diverse.”
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    The notions of equality and mutuality developed for human-human writing collaboration carry over to human-AI writing collaboration.

    “On an interaction level, good writing collaboration can exhibit diferent interaction patterns, such as diferent levels of mutuality and equality[2].”
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Authors
Lee, M., Liang, P., & Yang, Q.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Cornell University (US)
Venue
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2022-04-29
Pages
1-19
OpenAlex
W4220747294
Cited by
345
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 61 · 2025: 96 · 2024: 118 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 14
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56.81
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
Keywords
human-AI collaboration, large language models, GPT-3, writing support, creative writing, argumentative writing, human-AI interaction, idea generation, language generation, interaction design

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