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Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization: Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
EditorsJian Wu, Xiao Hu, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Sam Chu, Ruixian Yang, J. Stephen Downie
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (electronic)9798400710933
Publication statusPublished - 13 Mar 2025
Event24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2024 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 16 Dec 202420 Dec 2024

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NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
ISSN (Print)1552-5996

Abstract

There are lots of scientific articles are being published every year, it is increasingly challenging for researchers to maintain oversight and track scientific progress. Meanwhile, Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing tasks. This research focuses on generating summaries from research paper abstracts by utilizing LLMs and comprehensively evaluating the performance of the summarization. LLMs offer customizable outputs through Prompt Engineering by leveraging descriptive instructions including instructive examples and injection of context knowledge. We investigate the performance of various prompting techniques for various LLMs using both GPT-4 and human evaluation. For that purpose, we created a comprehensive benchmark dataset for scholarly summarization covering multiple scientific domains. We integrated our approach in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) to enable quicker syn-Thesis of research findings and trends across multiple studies, facilitating the dissemination of scientific knowledge to policymakers, practitioners, and the public.

Keywords

    Large Language Model, Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), Summarization

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Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization: Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence. / Keya, Farhana; Jaradeh, Mohamad Yaser; Auer, Sören.
JCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ed. / Jian Wu; Xiao Hu; Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller; Sam Chu; Ruixian Yang; J. Stephen Downie. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025. 9 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).

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Keya, F, Jaradeh, MY & Auer, S 2025, Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization: Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence. in J Wu, X Hu, T Nurmikko-Fuller, S Chu, R Yang & JS Downie (eds), JCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries., 9, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2024, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 16 Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677389.3702588
Keya, F., Jaradeh, M. Y., & Auer, S. (2025). Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization: Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence. In J. Wu, X. Hu, T. Nurmikko-Fuller, S. Chu, R. Yang, & J. S. Downie (Eds.), JCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Article 9 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677389.3702588
Keya F, Jaradeh MY, Auer S. Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization: Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence. In Wu J, Hu X, Nurmikko-Fuller T, Chu S, Yang R, Downie JS, editors, JCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2025. 9. (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). doi: 10.1145/3677389.3702588
Keya, Farhana ; Jaradeh, Mohamad Yaser ; Auer, Sören. / Leveraging LLMs for Scientific Abstract Summarization : Unearthing the Essence of Research in a Single Sentence. JCDL 2024 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. editor / Jian Wu ; Xiao Hu ; Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller ; Sam Chu ; Ruixian Yang ; J. Stephen Downie. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025. (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).
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