Paper ID: 2408.16444

SurveySum: A Dataset for Summarizing Multiple Scientific Articles into a Survey Section

Leandro Carísio Fernandes, Gustavo Bartz Guedes, Thiago Soares Laitz, Thales Sales Almeida, Rodrigo Nogueira, Roberto Lotufo, Jayr Pereira

Document summarization is a task to shorten texts into concise and informative summaries. This paper introduces a novel dataset designed for summarizing multiple scientific articles into a section of a survey. Our contributions are: (1) SurveySum, a new dataset addressing the gap in domain-specific summarization tools; (2) two specific pipelines to summarize scientific articles into a section of a survey; and (3) the evaluation of these pipelines using multiple metrics to compare their performance. Our results highlight the importance of high-quality retrieval stages and the impact of different configurations on the quality of generated summaries.

Submitted: Aug 29, 2024