Structured Summarization of Academic Publications

A.Gidiotis, G. Tsoumakas (2019) Structured Summarization of Academic Publications, 2019 Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

We propose SUSIE, a novel summarization method that can work with state-of-the-art summarization models in order to produce structured scientific summaries for academic articles. We also created PMC-SA, a new dataset of academic publications, suitable for the task of structured summarization with neural networks. We apply SUSIE combined with three different summarization models on the new PMC-SA dataset and we show that the proposed method improves the performance of all models by as much as 4 ROUGE points.