@inproceedings{lossio-ventura-etal-2025-5cnlp,
    title = "5c{NLP} at {B}io{L}ay{S}umm2025: Prompts, Retrieval, and Multimodal Fusion",
    author = "Lossio-Ventura, Juan Antonio  and
      Chan, Callum  and
      Basavaraj, Arshitha  and
      Alatrista-Salas, Hugo  and
      Pereira, Francisco  and
      Inkpen, Diana",
    editor = "Soni, Sarvesh  and
      Demner-Fushman, Dina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.bionlp-share.27/",
    pages = "215--231",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-276-3",
    abstract = "In this work, we present our approach to addressing all subtasks of the BioLaySumm 2025 shared task by leveraging prompting and retrieval strategies, as well as multimodal input fusion. Our method integrates: (1) zero-shot and few-shot prompting with large language models (LLMs); (2) semantic similarity-based dynamic few-shot prompting; (3) retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) incorporating biomedical knowledge from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS); and (4) a multimodal fusion pipeline that combines images and captions using image-text-to-text generation for enriched lay summarization. Our framework enables lightweight adaptation of pretrained LLMs for generating lay summaries from scientific articles and radiology reports. Using modern LLMs, including Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and GPT-4.1, our 5cNLP team achieved third place in Subtask 1.2 and second place in Subtask 2.1, among all submissions."
}