SumPubMed: Summarization Dataset of PubMed Scientific Articles

Autor: Vivek Gupta, Prerna Bharti, Pegah Nokhiz, Harish Karnick
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ACL (student)
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-srw.30
Popis: Most earlier work on text summarization is carried out on news article datasets. The summary in these datasets is naturally located at the beginning of the text. Hence, a model can spuriously utilize this correlation for summary generation instead of truly learning to summarize. To address this issue, we constructed a new dataset, SumPubMed , using scientific articles from the PubMed archive. We conducted a human analysis of summary coverage, redundancy, readability, coherence, and informativeness on SumPubMed . SumPubMed is challenging because (a) the summary is distributed throughout the text (not-localized on top), and (b) it contains rare domain-specific scientific terms. We observe that seq2seq models that adequately summarize news articles struggle to summarize SumPubMed . Thus, SumPubMed opens new avenues for the future improvement of models as well as the development of new evaluation metrics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE