TOPICAL: TOPIC Pages AutomagicaLly

John Giorgi, Amanpreet Singh, Doug Downey, Sergey Feldman, Lucy Wang


Abstract
Topic pages aggregate useful information about an entity or concept into a single succinct and accessible article. Automated creation of topic pages would enable their rapid curation as information resources, providing an alternative to traditional web search. While most prior work has focused on generating topic pages about biographical entities, in this work, we develop a completely automated process to generate high-quality topic pages for scientific entities, with a focus on biomedical concepts. We release TOPICAL, a web app and associated open-source code, comprising a model pipeline combining retrieval, clustering, and prompting, that makes it easy for anyone to generate topic pages for a wide variety of biomedical entities on demand. In a human evaluation of 150 diverse topic pages generated using TOPICAL, we find that the vast majority were considered relevant, accurate, and coherent, with correct supporting citations. We make all code publicly available and host a free-to-use web app at: https://s2-topical.apps.allenai.org.
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2024.naacl-demo.1
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Kai-Wei Chang, Annie Lee, Nazneen Rajani
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–11
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-demo.1
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John Giorgi, Amanpreet Singh, Doug Downey, Sergey Feldman, and Lucy Wang. 2024. TOPICAL: TOPIC Pages AutomagicaLly. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 1–11, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TOPICAL: TOPIC Pages AutomagicaLly (Giorgi et al., NAACL 2024)
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