Overview of the CLEF 2024 SimpleText Track Improving Access to Scientific Texts for Everyone

Open Access
Authors
  • G.M. Di Nunzio
  • F. Vezzani
  • J. D'Souza
  • J. Kamps ORCID logo
Publication date 2024
Host editors
  • L. Goeuriot
  • P. Mulhem
  • G. Quénot
  • D. Schwab
  • G.M. Di Nunzio
  • L. Soulier
  • P. Galuščáková
  • A. García Seco de Herrera
  • G. Faggioli
  • N. Ferro
Book title Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Book subtitle 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France, September 9–12, 2024 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783031719073
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783031719080
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 2024 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Volume | Issue number II
Pages (from-to) 283-307
Number of pages 25
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Everyone acknowledges the importance of objective scientific information. However, finding and understanding relevant scientific documents is often challenging due to complex terminology and readers’ lack of prior knowledge. The question is can we improve accessibility for everyone? This paper presents an overview of the SimpleText Track at CLEF 2024 addressing the technical and evaluation challenges associated with making scientific information accessible to a wide audience, including students and non-experts. It describes the data and benchmarks provided for scientific text summarization and simplification, along with the participants’ results. The CLEF 2024 SimpleText track is based on four interrelated tasks: Task 1 on Content Selection: Retrieving Passages to Include in a Simplified Summary. Task 2 on Complexity Spotting: Identifying and Explaining Difficult Concepts. Task 3 on Text Simplification: Simplify Scientific Text. Task 4 on SOTA?: Tracking the State-of-the-Art in Scholarly Publications.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_13
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