Abstract
Research in the biomedical domain is con- stantly challenged by its large amount of ever- evolving textual information. Biomedical re- searchers are usually required to conduct a lit- erature review before any medical interven- tion to assess the effectiveness of the con- cerned research. However, the process is time- consuming, and therefore, automation to some extent would help reduce the accompanying information overload. Multi-document sum- marization of scientific articles for literature reviews is one approximation of such automa- tion. Here in this paper, we describe our pipelined approach for the aforementioned task. We design a BERT-based extractive method followed by a BigBird PEGASUS-based ab- stractive pipeline for generating literature re- view summaries from the abstracts of biomedi- cal trial reports as part of the Multi-document Summarization for Literature Review (MSLR) shared task1 in the Scholarly Document Pro- cessing (SDP) workshop 20222. Our proposed model achieves the best performance on the MSLR-Cochrane leaderboard3 on majority of the evaluation metrics. Human scrutiny of our automatically generated summaries indicates that our approach is promising to yield readable multi-article summaries for conducting such lit- erature reviews.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.sdp-1.25
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Arman Cohan, Guy Feigenblat, Dayne Freitag, Tirthankar Ghosal, Drahomira Herrmannova, Petr Knoth, Kyle Lo, Philipp Mayr, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Anita de Waard, Lucy Lu Wang
- Venue:
- sdp
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 204–209
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.sdp-1.25
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kartik Shinde, Trinita Roy, and Tirthankar Ghosal. 2022. An Extractive-Abstractive Approach for Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles for Literature Review. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing, pages 204–209, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- An Extractive-Abstractive Approach for Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles for Literature Review (Shinde et al., sdp 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2022.sdp-1.25.pdf
- Code
- allenai/mslr-shared-task