AI-Assisted Authoring for Transparent, Data-Driven Documents

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Main Authors: Piscitelli, Alfonso, David, Cristina, De Rosa, Mattia, Mohammed, Ali, Nanni, Federico, Pake, Jacob, Perera, Roly, Sodimu, Jessy, Zheng, Chenyiqiu
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author Piscitelli, Alfonso
David, Cristina
De Rosa, Mattia
Mohammed, Ali
Nanni, Federico
Pake, Jacob
Perera, Roly
Sodimu, Jessy
Zheng, Chenyiqiu
author_facet Piscitelli, Alfonso
David, Cristina
De Rosa, Mattia
Mohammed, Ali
Nanni, Federico
Pake, Jacob
Perera, Roly
Sodimu, Jessy
Zheng, Chenyiqiu
contents We introduce _transparent documents_, interactive web-based scholarly articles which allow readers to explore the relationship to the underlying data by hovering over fragments of text, and present an LLM-based tool for authoring transparent documents, building on recent developments in data provenance for general-purpose programming languages. As a target platform, our implementation uses Fluid, an open source programming language with a provenance-tracking runtime. Our agent-based tool supports a human author during the creation of transparent documents, identifying fragments of text which can be computed from data, such as numerical values selected from records or computed by aggregations like sum and mean, comparatives and superlatives like _better than_ and _largest_, trend-adjectives like _growing_, and similar quantitative or semi-quantitative phrases, and then attempts to synthesise a suitable Fluid query over the data which generates the target string. The resulting expression is inserted into the article's web page, turning the static text fragment into an interactable data-driven element able to reveal the data that underwrites the natural language claim. We evaluate our approach on a subset of SciGen, an open source dataset consisting of tables from scientific articles and their corresponding descriptions, which we extend with hand-generated counterfactual test cases to evaluate how well machine-generated expressions generalise. Our results show that gpt4o is often able to synthesise compound expressions extensionally compatible with our gold solutions.
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spellingShingle AI-Assisted Authoring for Transparent, Data-Driven Documents
Piscitelli, Alfonso
David, Cristina
De Rosa, Mattia
Mohammed, Ali
Nanni, Federico
Pake, Jacob
Perera, Roly
Sodimu, Jessy
Zheng, Chenyiqiu
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Information Retrieval
Programming Languages
We introduce _transparent documents_, interactive web-based scholarly articles which allow readers to explore the relationship to the underlying data by hovering over fragments of text, and present an LLM-based tool for authoring transparent documents, building on recent developments in data provenance for general-purpose programming languages. As a target platform, our implementation uses Fluid, an open source programming language with a provenance-tracking runtime. Our agent-based tool supports a human author during the creation of transparent documents, identifying fragments of text which can be computed from data, such as numerical values selected from records or computed by aggregations like sum and mean, comparatives and superlatives like _better than_ and _largest_, trend-adjectives like _growing_, and similar quantitative or semi-quantitative phrases, and then attempts to synthesise a suitable Fluid query over the data which generates the target string. The resulting expression is inserted into the article's web page, turning the static text fragment into an interactable data-driven element able to reveal the data that underwrites the natural language claim. We evaluate our approach on a subset of SciGen, an open source dataset consisting of tables from scientific articles and their corresponding descriptions, which we extend with hand-generated counterfactual test cases to evaluate how well machine-generated expressions generalise. Our results show that gpt4o is often able to synthesise compound expressions extensionally compatible with our gold solutions.
title AI-Assisted Authoring for Transparent, Data-Driven Documents
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Information Retrieval
Programming Languages
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06027