Overview of the BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles

Tomas Goldsack, Carolina Scarton, Matthew Shardlow, Chenghua Lin

Abstract
This paper presents the setup and results of the second edition of the BioLaySumm shared task on the Lay Summarisation of Biomedical Research Articles, hosted at the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2024. In this task edition, we aim to build on the first edition’s success by further increasing research interest in this important task and encouraging participants to explore novel approaches that will help advance the state-of-the-art. Encouragingly, we found research interest in the task to be high, with this edition of the task attracting a total of 53 participating teams, a significant increase in engagement from the previous edition. Overall, our results show that a broad range of innovative approaches were adopted by task participants, with a predictable shift towards the use of Large Language Models (LLMs).
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2024.bionlp-1.10
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Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Makoto Miwa, Kirk Roberts, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP | WS
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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122–131
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.bionlp-1.10
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Tomas Goldsack, Carolina Scarton, Matthew Shardlow, and Chenghua Lin. 2024. Overview of the BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, pages 122–131, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of the BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles (Goldsack et al., BioNLP-WS 2024)
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