Content Driven Enrichment of Formal Text using Concept Definitions and Applications

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

“…Chaudhri et al [19] introduced Inquire Biology, a biology textbook that allows students to view concept definitions and ask open-ended questions about information in the textbook. Work has also developed new interaction techniques for researchers reading papers, including surfacing definitions [47], searching over related work sections [80], providing paper passages that answer natural language queries [109] and navigating concepts within a paper [1,50]. With the improved performance of LMs like GPT-3, 3.5, and 4 [79], there has been dramatic growth in augmented reading interfaces for scientific papers [63].…”

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

“…"Talk to Papers" allows users to query papers with natural language questions and provides passages where answers are taken from. Other work has explored tools for adaptive summarization in news articles [12], evaluating research literature [62,69], navigating concepts within a paper [6,48] and providing reading guidance in textbooks [20,105]. There are also interactive systems for collaborative reading of research papers, such as Fermat's Library [1], which provides community annotations on popular research papers, and Hypothes.is [2], which allows users to annotate and share annotations on any webpage.…”

“…Medical research text is so jargoned that a reader has to invest considerable effort learning the background knowledge to understand it. Previous interfaces that assume readers know what important questions to ask [110], where to look for their answers [23] or know how to make sense of definitions of terms within a paper [44,48] can make reading exceedingly difficult for these readers. Paper Plain goes beyond the typical capabilities of interactive readers to instead help readers understand where to find information of interest in a paper according to the language they already know.…”