MSˆ2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies

Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen, Bailey Kuehl, Lucy Wang


Abstract
To assess the effectiveness of any medical intervention, researchers must conduct a time-intensive and manual literature review. NLP systems can help to automate or assist in parts of this expensive process. In support of this goal, we release MSˆ2 (Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies), a dataset of over 470k documents and 20K summaries derived from the scientific literature. This dataset facilitates the development of systems that can assess and aggregate contradictory evidence across multiple studies, and is the first large-scale, publicly available multi-document summarization dataset in the biomedical domain. We experiment with a summarization system based on BART, with promising early results, though significant work remains to achieve higher summarization quality. We formulate our summarization inputs and targets in both free text and structured forms and modify a recently proposed metric to assess the quality of our system’s generated summaries. Data and models are available at https://github.com/allenai/ms2.
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2021.emnlp-main.594
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7494–7513
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.594
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.594
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Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen, Bailey Kuehl, and Lucy Wang. 2021. MSˆ2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 7494–7513, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MSˆ2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies (DeYoung et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Code
 allenai/ms2
Data
Evidence InferenceMulti-NewsSemantic ScholarWikiSum