UIUC_BioNLP at BioLaySumm: An Extract-then-Summarize Approach Augmented with Wikipedia Knowledge for Biomedical Lay Summarization

Zhiwen You, Shruthan Radhakrishna, Shufan Ming, Halil Kilicoglu

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Abstract

As the number of scientific publications is growing at a rapid pace, it is difficult for laypeople to keep track of and understand the latest scientific advances, especially in the biomedical domain. While the summarization of scientific publications has been widely studied, research on summarization targeting laypeople has remained scarce. In this study, considering the lengthy input of biomedical articles, we have developed a lay summarization system through an extract-then-summarize framework with large language models (LLMs) to summarize biomedical articles for laypeople. Using a fine-tuned GPT-3.5 model, our approach achieves the highest overall ranking and demonstrates the best relevance performance in the BioLaySumm 2024 shared task1,..

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBioNLP 2024 - 23rd Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop and Shared Tasks
EditorsDina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Makoto Miwa, Kirk Roberts, Junichi Tsujii
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages132-143
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761308
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event23rd Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: Aug 16 2024 → …

Publication series

NameBioNLP 2024 - 23rd Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop and Shared Tasks

Conference

Conference23rd Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period8/16/24 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Software

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