{"id":"paths-writing","title":"Prototypical Human-AI Collaboration Behaviors from LLM-Assisted Writing in the Wild","authors":[{"given":"Sheshera","family":"Mysore"},{"given":"Debarati","family":"Das"},{"given":"Hancheng","family":"Cao"},{"given":"Bahareh","family":"Sarrafzadeh"}],"first_public":"2025-05-21","date_note":"First arXiv version.","date_source":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16023","year":2025,"venue":"EMNLP 2025","paper_url":"https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.852/","arxiv":"2505.16023","category":"behavior","relationship":"uses","dataset_version":"Approximately 68,000 English writing sessions from WildChat-1M, filtered to at least two user utterances; compared with writing sessions from Bing Copilot.","summary":"Studies how users steer writing across successive turns. The authors label follow-up types, identify recurring collaboration patterns with principal component analysis, and relate those patterns to writing intents such as brainstorming, technical drafting, and long-form composition.","finding":"Seven collaboration patterns account for 80–85% of the variance in the analyzed follow-up representations; explicit positive or negative feedback appears in only a small minority of sessions.","evidence_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2505.16023v3","evidence_note":"Sections 3–6 and Appendix B: WildChat subset, analysis, and shared patterns across the two services.","bibtex_key":"pathswriting2025","record_url":"https://yuntiandeng.com/wildchat/papers/paths-writing/","relationship_label":"Uses WildChat","citation_title":"Prototypical Human-AI Collaboration Behaviors from LLM-Assisted Writing in the Wild","citation_type":"paper-conference","bibtex_type":"inproceedings","citation_url":"https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.852/","citation_year":2025,"citation_note":"EMNLP 2025 proceedings paper.","doi":"10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.852","container_title":"Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing","pages":"16819–16846","publisher":"Association for Computational Linguistics"}