TalkSumm: A Dataset and Scalable Annotation Method for Scientific Paper Summarization Based on Conference Talks
Guy Lev, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Jonathan Herzig, Achiya Jerbi, David Konopnicki · 2019
Currently, no large-scale training data is available for the task of scientific paper summarization.In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates summaries for scientific papers, by utilizing videos of talks at scientific conferences.We hypothesize that such talks constitute a coherent and concise description of the papers' content, and can form the basis for good summaries.We collected 1716 papers and their corresponding videos, and created a dataset of paper summaries.A model trained on this dataset achieves similar performance as models trained on a dataset of summaries created manually.In addition, we validated the quality of our summaries by human experts.