Longform Multimodal Lay Summarization of Scientific Papers: Towards Automatically Generating Science Blogs from Research Articles (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Science blogs and lay-speak are critical to communicating scientific information to the general public and policymakers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use presentation transcripts and slides to generate a scientific blog from a research article in layperson's terms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can generate a blog text and select the most relevant figures to explain a research article in layperson’s terms, essentially a science blog. |
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