The Writing Process in Online Mass Collaboration NLP-Supported Approaches to Analyzing Collaborative Revision and User Interaction Vom Fachbereich Informatik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt genehmigte Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Dr.-Ing. vorgelegt von Johannes Daxenberger, M.A. geboren in Rosenheim Tag der Einreichung: 28. Mai 2015 Tag der Disputation: 21. Juli 2015 Referenten: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Karsten Weihe, Darmstadt Assoc. Prof. Ofer Arazy, Ph.D., Alberta Darmstadt 2016 D17 Please cite this document as URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-52259 URL: http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/5225 This document is provided by tuprints, E-Publishing-Service of the TU Darmstadt http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
[email protected] This work is published under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/deed.en Abstract In the past 15 years, the rapid development of web technologies has created novel ways of collaborative editing. Open online platforms have attracted millions of users from all over the world. The open encyclopedia Wikipedia, started in 2001, has become a very prominent example of a largely successful platform for collaborative editing and knowledge creation. The wiki model has enabled collaboration at a new scale, with more than 30,000 monthly active users on the English Wikipedia. Traditional writing research deals with questions concerning revision and the writing process itself. The analysis of collaborative writing additionally raises questions about the interaction of the involved authors. Interaction takes place when authors write on the same document (indirect interaction), or when they coordinate the collaborative writing process by means of communication (direct interaction).