EMNLP 2022finding9 citations

M3: Multi-level dataset for Multi-document summarisation of Medical studies

Yulia Otmakhova, Karin Verspoor, Timothy Baldwin, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Jey Han Lau

Abstract

We present M3 (Multi-level dataset for Multi-document summarisation of Medical studies), a benchmark dataset for evaluating the quality of summarisation systems in the biomedical domain. The dataset contains sets of multiple input documents and target summaries of three levels of complexity: documents, sentences, and propositions. The dataset also includes several levels of annotation, including biomedical entities, direction, and strength of relations between them, and the discourse relationships between the input documents (“contradiction” or “agreement”). We showcase usage scenarios of the dataset by testing 10 generic and domain-specific summarisation models in a zero-shot setting, and introduce a probing task based on counterfactuals to test if models are aware of the direction and strength of the conclusions generated from input studies.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{otmakhova-etal-2022-m3,
    title = "{M}3: Multi-level dataset for Multi-document summarisation of Medical studies",
    author = "Otmakhova, Yulia  and
      Verspoor, Karin  and
      Baldwin, Timothy  and
      Jimeno Yepes, Antonio  and
      Lau, Jey Han",
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.286/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.286",
    pages = "3887--3901"
}