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Approach: They propose a attention-based citation aggregation model that integrates domain-specific knowledge from citation papers and a large-scale biomedical summarisation dataset to build on.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and achieves substantial improvements in biomedical abstractive summarisation.

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