8 papers
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…
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…