ROUGE-SciQFS: A ROUGE-based Method to Automatically Create Datasets for Scientific Query-Focused Summarization (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Scientific Query-Focused Summarization (Sci-QFS) has lagged in development due to the lack of data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to take advantage of existing academic papers to obtain large-scale datasets for this task automatically. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing models on the datasets and shows that it is relatively straightforward for humans. |
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