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IKM_Lab at BioLaySumm Task 1: Longformer-based Prompt Tuning for Biomedical Lay Summary Generation

  • National Cheng Kung University

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Abstract

This paper describes the entry by the Intelligent Knowledge Management (IKM) Laboratory in the BioLaySumm 2023 task1. We aim to transform lengthy biomedical articles into concise, reader-friendly summaries that can be easily comprehended by the general public. We utilized a long-text abstractive summarization longformer model and experimented with several prompt methods for this task. Our entry placed 10th overall, but we were particularly proud to achieve a 3rd place score in the readability evaluation metric. Our code is available at https://github.com/IKMLab/ BioLaySumm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioNLP 2023 - BioNLP and BioNLP-ST, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsDina Demner-fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Kevin Cohen
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages602-610
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429852
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing and BioNLP Shared Tasks, BioNLP 2023 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 13 07 2023 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing and BioNLP Shared Tasks, BioNLP 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period13/07/23 → …

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