ScientificLaySummarisation

This repository contains the PLOS and eLife datasets, introduced in the EMNLP 2022 paper "Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature ". Each dataset contains full biomedical research articles paired with expert-written lay summaries (i.e., non-technical summaries). PLOS articles are derived from various journals published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS), whereas eLife articles are derived from the eLife journal.

More details/anlaysis on the content of each dataset are provided in the paper. Both "elife" and "plos" have 6 features: - "article": the body of the document (including the abstract), sections seperated by "/n". - "section_headings": the title of each section, seperated by "/n". - "keywords": keywords describing the topic of the article, seperated by "/n". - "title" : the title of the article. - "year" : the year the article was published. - "summary": the lay summary of the document.