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title = "The patient is more dead than alive: exploring the current state of the multi-document summarisation of the biomedical literature",
author = "Otmakhova, Yulia and
Verspoor, Karin and
Baldwin, Timothy and
Lau, Jey Han",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.350",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.350",
pages = "5098--5111",
abstract = "Although multi-document summarisation (MDS) of the biomedical literature is a highly valuable task that has recently attracted substantial interest, evaluation of the quality of biomedical summaries lacks consistency and transparency. In this paper, we examine the summaries generated by two current models in order to understand the deficiencies of existing evaluation approaches in the context of the challenges that arise in the MDS task. Based on this analysis, we propose a new approach to human evaluation and identify several challenges that must be overcome to develop effective biomedical MDS systems.",
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%T The patient is more dead than alive: exploring the current state of the multi-document summarisation of the biomedical literature
%A Otmakhova, Yulia
%A Verspoor, Karin
%A Baldwin, Timothy
%A Lau, Jey Han
%Y Muresan, Smaranda
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Villavicencio, Aline
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%D 2022
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dublin, Ireland
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%X Although multi-document summarisation (MDS) of the biomedical literature is a highly valuable task that has recently attracted substantial interest, evaluation of the quality of biomedical summaries lacks consistency and transparency. In this paper, we examine the summaries generated by two current models in order to understand the deficiencies of existing evaluation approaches in the context of the challenges that arise in the MDS task. Based on this analysis, we propose a new approach to human evaluation and identify several challenges that must be overcome to develop effective biomedical MDS systems.
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Markdown (Informal)
[The patient is more dead than alive: exploring the current state of the multi-document summarisation of the biomedical literature](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.350) (Otmakhova et al., ACL 2022)
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