BioLaySumm 2023 Shared Task: Lay Summarisation of Biomedical Research Articles

Tomas Goldsack, Zheheng Luo, Qianqian Xie, Carolina Scarton, Matthew Shardlow, Sophia Ananiadou, Chenghua Lin

Abstract
This paper presents the results of the shared task on Lay Summarisation of Biomedical Research Articles (BioLaySumm), hosted at the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2023. The goal of this shared task is to develop abstractive summarisation models capable of generating “lay summaries” (i.e., summaries that are comprehensible to non-technical audiences) in both a controllable and non-controllable setting.There are two subtasks: 1) Lay Summarisation, where the goal is for participants to build models for lay summary generation only, given the full article text and the corresponding abstract as input; and2) Readability-controlled Summarisation, where the goal is for participants to train models to generate both the technical abstract and the lay summary, given an article’s main text as input.In addition to overall results, we report on the setup and insights from the BioLaySumm shared task, which attracted a total of 20 participating teams across both subtasks.
Anthology ID:
2023.bionlp-1.44
Volume:
The 22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing and BioNLP Shared Tasks
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Venue:
BioNLP
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
468–477
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.bionlp-1.44
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Tomas Goldsack, Zheheng Luo, Qianqian Xie, Carolina Scarton, Matthew Shardlow, Sophia Ananiadou, and Chenghua Lin. 2023. BioLaySumm 2023 Shared Task: Lay Summarisation of Biomedical Research Articles. In The 22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing and BioNLP Shared Tasks, pages 468–477, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
BioLaySumm 2023 Shared Task: Lay Summarisation of Biomedical Research Articles (Goldsack et al., BioNLP 2023)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/2023.bionlp-1.44.pdf
PDF Search