Dushan Kumarasinghe


2022

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Automatic Generation of Abstracts for Research Papers
Dushan Kumarasinghe | Nisansa de Silva
Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2022)

Summarizing has always been an important utility for reading long documents. Research papers are unique in this regard, as they have a compulsory summary in the form of the abstract in the beginning of the document which gives the gist of the entire study often within a set upper limit for the word count. Writing the abstract to be sufficiently succinct while being descriptive enough is a hard task even for native English speakers. This study is the first step in generating abstracts for research papers in the computational linguistics domain automatically using the domain-specific abstractive summarization power of the GPT-Neo model.