Harnessing CLIP for Evidence Identification in Scientific Literature: A Multimodal Approach to Context24 Shared Task

Anukriti Kumar, Lucy Wang


Abstract
Knowing whether scientific claims are supported by evidence is fundamental to scholarly communication and evidence-based decision-making. We present our approach to Task 1 of the Context24 Shared Task—Contextualizing Scientific Figures and Tables (SDP@ACL2024), which focuses on identifying multimodal evidence from scientific publications that support claims. We finetune CLIP, a state-of-the-art model for image-text similarity tasks, to identify and rank figures and tables in papers that substantiate specific claims. Our methods focus on text and image preprocessing techniques and augmenting the organizer-provided training data with labeled examples from the SciMMIR and MedICaT datasets. Our best-performing model achieved NDCG@5 and NDCG@10 values of 0.26 and 0.30, respectively, on the Context24 test split. Our findings underscore the effectiveness of data augmentation and preprocessing in improving the model’s ability in evidence matching.
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2024.sdp-1.29
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024)
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Tirthankar Ghosal, Amanpreet Singh, Anita Waard, Philipp Mayr, Aakanksha Naik, Orion Weller, Yoonjoo Lee, Shannon Shen, Yanxia Qin
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307–313
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Anukriti Kumar and Lucy Wang. 2024. Harnessing CLIP for Evidence Identification in Scientific Literature: A Multimodal Approach to Context24 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024), pages 307–313, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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