---
annotations_creators:
- found
language:
- en
language_creators:
- found
license:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: scientific_lay_summarisation
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
tags:
- scientific papers
- lay summarization
- PLOS
- eLife
task_categories:
- summarization
task_ids: []
---

# Dataset Card for "scientific_lay_summarisation"

### Dataset Summary

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
](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09932)" . 

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)](https://plos.org/), whereas eLife articles are derived from the [eLife](https://elifesciences.org/) journal. More details/anlaysis on the content of each dataset are provided in the paper.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Papers with code - [PLOS](https://paperswithcode.com/sota/lay-summarization-on-plos) and [eLife](https://paperswithcode.com/sota/lay-summarization-on-elife).

### Languages

English

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

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### Data Fields

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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## Additional Information

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### Citation Information

```
"Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature"
Tomas Goldsack, Zhihao Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Carolina Scarton
EMNLP 2022
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@TGoldsack1](https://github.com/TGoldsack1) for adding this dataset.