Researchers established 18 basic functions for a planning vocabulary. They discovered that plans utilizing this vocabulary took less time and effort to develop, contained more atomic steps, and included more tasks delegable to others. However, these vocabulary-based plans were found to be less flexible than unstructured plans.

Findings on Vocabulary-Based Planning

* Using a hybrid approach, the planner has the autonomy to modify the automatically generated plans as need be based on the task in the comment.
* The hybrid approach would allow people to be more flexible and unconstrained, while still saving time and effort, and making plans that are more atomic and have more sourcing potential.
* The researchers proposal is to use prior examples of plans created to automatically generate new plans but allow planners to deliberate and create new plans depending on the task identified in the comment.

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Researchers have hypothesized three factors that may increase the difficulty of creating action plans from feedback comments during document collaboration:

1. Stage of the Document: Mentors often find it more difficult and context-dependent to create action plans for early-stage initial drafts compared to documents in the core writing and editing stages.
2. Domain Knowledge: Writing that requires high domain knowledge (e.g., academic articles) is less conducive to creating consistent action plans than writing with low domain-specific knowledge requirements (e.g., Wikipedia articles) (Kaur et al., 2018).
3. Interpersonal Relationships: Unlike democratized platforms like Wikipedia, academic writing often relies on an apprenticeship model. This dynamic allows mentors to use writing collaboration to teach mentees how to write, which changes the types of tasks and comments they leave.

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