IKM_Lab at BioLaySumm Task 1: Longformer-based Prompt Tuning for Biomedical Lay Summary Generation

Yu-Hsuan Wu, Ying-Jia Lin, Hung-Yu Kao

BioNLP and BioNLP-ST 2023 Short Paper

TLDR: This paper describes the entry by the Intelligent Knowledge Management (IKM) Laboratory in the BioLaySumm 2023 task1. We aim to transform lengthy biomedical articles into concise, reader-friendly summaries that can be easily comprehended by the general public. We utilized a long-text abstractive sum
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Abstract: This paper describes the entry by the Intelligent Knowledge Management (IKM) Laboratory in the BioLaySumm 2023 task1. We aim to transform lengthy biomedical articles into concise, reader-friendly summaries that can be easily comprehended by the general public. We utilized a long-text abstractive summarization longformer model and experimented with several prompt methods for this task. Our entry placed 10th overall, but we were particularly proud to achieve a 3rd place score in the readability evaluation metric.