Humanise

Editorial humaniser for drafts that need a human voice without losing their citations. Start from a tested profile or assemble an ordered chain, inspect every intermediate, and detect the final version on the same surface.

The workbench exposes local rewrites, an editorial model path, seven NLLB round trips, and three multi-pivot paths. These are editorial experiments, not guarantees of authorship or detector outcomes. Method benchmarks remain at /research/methods.

Humanisation workbench / beta

Build a treatment profile, not a magic rewrite

Combine local rewrites and NLLB round trips, inspect every intermediate, then run the current detector on the result. Translation can change meaning: citations, facts and terminology still require author review.

Execution chain

Ordered transformations

    One Turnstile check authorises exactly one chain run. Profile definitions stay in this browser; the complete chain is executed as one EU API job.

    Modes

    • Profiles — available now. Start from eight named treatments, then change, reorder, add, or remove every operation.
    • Translation chains — available now for English source text. Single and multi-pivot NLLB paths preserve recognised technical entities and show each returned intermediate for review.
    • Custom profiles — stored only in this browser. Text is sent step by step to the selected EU API operation; profile structure is not uploaded.

    AST-aware editorial mode

    Most humanisers feed your draft to a paraphraser and return whatever comes back. That breaks two things: citations and quoted material. A paraphraser does not know that (Liang et al., 2023) is load-bearing prose; it sees a noun phrase and rewords it.

    humaniser.eu parses the draft into an abstract syntax tree before the rewrite. Citation nodes, block quotes, fenced code, named-entity spans, and footnote markers are pinned. The rewriter only edits the prose nodes between them. The rewrite arrives with a diff view that shows what changed and what was held.

    Citation preservation

    The citation lock recognises author-year (Smith, 2024), numeric ([14]), and footnote formats. The pinned span is reinserted verbatim at the matched position in the rewrite. If the rewriter cannot place a pinned citation cleanly, the rewrite is rejected and the original sentence is returned untouched.

    What is not rewritten

    • Direct quotations inside curly or straight quotes.
    • Block quotes, including indented and fenced.
    • Code fences and inline code.
    • Citations and references in any recognised format.
    • Named entities — people, organisations, products, court cases.

    The detector page documents the verdict format; this page documents the rewrite. They share a model identifier, which appears in both analysis records so a reviewer can confirm the rewrite was scored by the same detector version that flagged the draft.