Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

T August, LL Wang, J Bragg, MA Hearst… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, healthcare consumers
may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, however, can be a challenging …

A computational inflection for scientific discovery

T Hope, D Downey, DS Weld, O Etzioni… - Communications of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery Page 1 DOI:10.1145/3576896 Enabling
researchers to leverage systems to overcome the limits of human cognitive capacity. BY TOM …

The semantic reader project: Augmenting scholarly documents through ai-powered interactive reading interfaces

K Lo, JC Chang, A Head, J Bragg, AX Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However,
research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature grows …

CiteME: Can Language Models Accurately Cite Scientific Claims?

O Press, A Hochlehnert, A Prabhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Thousands of new scientific papers are published each month. Such information overload
complicates researcher efforts to stay current with the state-of-the-art as well as to verify and …

Leveraging large language models for learning complex legal concepts through storytelling

H Jiang, X Zhang, R Mahari, D Kessler, E Ma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Making legal knowledge accessible to non-experts is crucial for enhancing general legal
literacy and encouraging civic participation in democracy. However, legal documents are …

Words as gatekeepers: Measuring discipline-specific terms and meanings in scholarly publications

L Lucy, J Dodge, D Bamman, KA Keith - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09676, 2022 - arxiv.org
Scholarly text is often laden with jargon, or specialized language that can facilitate efficient
in-group communication within fields but hinder understanding for out-groups. In this work …

Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the" general" audience

T August, K Lo, NA Smith, K Reinecke - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general
public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be …

The Semantic Reader Project

K Lo, JC Chang, A Head, J Bragg, AX Zhang… - Communications of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However,
research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature grows …

Generating topic pages for scientific concepts using scientific publications

H Azarbonyad, Z Afzal, G Tsatsaronis - European Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we describe Topic Pages, an inventory of scientific concepts and information
around them extracted from a large collection of scientific books and journals. The main aim …

KnowledgeShovel: An AI-in-the-Loop Document Annotation System for Scientific Knowledge Base Construction

S Zhang, Y Jia, H Xu, D Wang, TJ Li, Y Wen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Constructing a comprehensive, accurate, and useful scientific knowledge base is crucial for
human researchers synthesizing scientific knowledge and for enabling Al-driven scientific …