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The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature…
The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform
Rodney Kinney, Chloe Anastasiades, Russell Authur +45
The volume of scientific output is creating an urgent need for automated tools to help scientists keep up with developments in their field. Semantic Scholar (S2) is an open data pl…
Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents: Current State, User Needs, and a System Solution to Enhance Scientific PDF Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users
Lucy Lu Wang, Isabel Cachola, Jonathan Bragg +7
The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers. We characterize the scope of t…
MS2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies
Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen +2
To assess the effectiveness of any medical intervention, researchers must conduct a time-intensive and highly manual literature review. NLP systems can help to automate or assist i…
MedICaT: A Dataset of Medical Images, Captions, and Textual References
Sanjay Subramanian, Lucy Lu Wang, Sachin Mehta +6
Understanding the relationship between figures and text is key to scientific document understanding. Medical figures in particular are quite complex, often consisting of several su…
Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers
Tom Hope, Aida Amini, David Wadden +6
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging to navigate, stimulating interest in automated tools to help find useful knowledge. We…
SciREX: A Challenge Dataset for Document-Level Information Extraction
Sarthak Jain, Madeleine van Zuylen, Hannaneh Hajishirzi +1
Extracting information from full documents is an important problem in many domains, but most previous work focus on identifying relationships within a sentence or a paragraph. It i…
Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific Claims
David Wadden, Shanchuan Lin, Kyle Lo +4
We introduce scientific claim verification, a new task to select abstracts from the research literature containing evidence that SUPPORTS or REFUTES a given scientific claim, and t…
Structural Scaffolds for Citation Intent Classification in Scientific Publications
Arman Cohan, Waleed Ammar, Madeleine van Zuylen +1
Identifying the intent of a citation in scientific papers (e.g., background information, use of methods, comparing results) is critical for machine reading of individual publicatio…
Construction of the Literature Graph in Semantic Scholar
Waleed Ammar, Dirk Groeneveld, Chandra Bhagavatula +20
We describe a deployed scalable system for organizing published scientific literature into a heterogeneous graph to facilitate algorithmic manipulation and discovery. The resulting…
A Dataset of Peer Reviews (PeerRead): Collection, Insights and NLP Applications
Dongyeop Kang, Waleed Ammar, Bhavana Dalvi +4
Peer reviewing is a central component in the scientific publishing process. We present the first public dataset of scientific peer reviews available for research purposes (PeerRead…