Readability Controllable Biomedical Document Summarization (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing controllable summarization systems for biomedical documents have little attention to readability control, leaving users with incompatible summaries . |
| Approach: | They propose a task of readability controllable summarization for biomedical documents to generate summaries that are incompatible with users' levels of expertise. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on pre-trained language models with prevalent controlling and generation techniques and evaluates the readability discrepancy between lay and technical summaries. |
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