Challenge: a system for summarizing academic articles by concept tagging has shown great coverage and high accuracy of concept identification.
Approach: They propose to transform tagged concepts into sparse vectors as representations of academic documents.
Outcome: The proposed system can be applied to a broader class of applications.

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Automatic Generation of Citation Texts in Scholarly Papers: A Pilot Study (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies on automatic generation of citation texts in scholarly papers have not investigated this problem.
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