NapSS: Paragraph-level Medical Text Simplification via Narrative Prompting and Sentence-matching Summarization (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that accessing medical literature is difficult for laypeople because it is written for specialists and contains medical jargon. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage strategy to identify relevant content to be simplified . they first generate reference summaries via sentence matching between the original and simplified abstracts . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on a seq2seq-based test set on an English medical corpus . it also improves the SARI score by 1.1% . |
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