2021-01-11: Trip report to SDP (First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing) 2020@EMNLP
The First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing ( SDP 2020 ) was collocated with EMNLP 2020 on Nov. 19, 2020. This workshop is organized for research on mining scientific literature. The SDP workshop includes a research track and three shared tasks : 6th CL-SciSumm (this shared task also asked for participation in past years), 1st LongSumm, 1st LaySumm. The research track received 34 papers, among which seven are accepted as full papers and two as short papers. There are also 11 posters and in addition, 18 shared task papers were submitted to the shared task track. Shared task 1: Longsum shared task. Guy Feigenblat from IBM Research AI talked about this task. Most of the work on summarization mainly generates short summaries. For scientific articles, a longer and detailed summary is more needed by the researchers. This task focuses on generating long summaries for academic articles. It’s already produced as IBM Science Summarizer and they are improving it. The training ...