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However, reachable research does not mean accessible knowledge. Scientific papers are usually replete with jargon and hard to read. A lay audience would rather trust little stories on social media than read scientific papers. They are not to blame, we human like stories.
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So why do not we "translate" arcane scientific abstracts into accessible, simpler, and relevant scientific stories?
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Some renowned journals have already taken accessibility into consideration. For example, PNAS asks authors to submit Significance Statements targeting "an undergraduate-educated scientist." Science also includes an editor abstract for a quick dive.
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To this end, we introduce a new corpus comprising PNAS abstract-significance pairs.
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We finetune an encoder-decoder Transformer model (a variant of Flan-T5) with the corpus.
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Our baseline model (SAS-baseline) shows promising capacity in simplifying and summarizing scientific abstracts.
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However, reachable research does not mean accessible knowledge. Scientific papers are usually replete with jargon and hard to read. A lay audience would rather trust little stories on social media than read scientific papers. They are not to blame, we human like stories.
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So why do not we "translate" arcane scientific abstracts into accessible, simpler, and relevant scientific stories?
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Some renowned journals have already taken accessibility into consideration. For example, PNAS asks authors to submit Significance Statements targeting "an undergraduate-educated scientist." Science also includes an editor abstract for a quick dive.
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We therefore propose to *rewrite scientific abstracts into understandable scientific stories using AI*.
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To this end, we introduce a new corpus comprising PNAS abstract-significance pairs.
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We finetune an encoder-decoder Transformer model (a variant of Flan-T5) with the corpus.
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Our baseline model (SAS-baseline) shows promising capacity in simplifying and summarizing scientific abstracts.
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