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20202025
most citedThe Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform

59 citations · 77 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2025

Evaluating the Evaluators: Are readability metrics good measures of readability?

Isabel Cachola, Daniel Khashabi, Mark Dredze

Plain Language Summarization (PLS) aims to distill complex documents into accessible summaries for non-expert audiences. In this paper, we conduct a thorough survey of PLS literatu…

cs.CL2024

Making FETCH! Happen: Finding Emergent Dog Whistles Through Common Habitats

Kuleen Sasse, Carlos Aguirre, Isabel Cachola +2

WARNING: This paper contains content that maybe upsetting or offensive to some readers. Dog whistles are coded expressions with dual meanings: one intended for the general public (…

cs.CL2024

Knowledge-Centric Templatic Views of Documents

Isabel Cachola, Silviu Cucerzan, Allen Herring +3

Authors seeking to communicate with broader audiences often share their ideas in various document formats, such as slide decks, newsletters, reports, and posters. Prior work on doc…

cs.CL2023

Selecting Shots for Demographic Fairness in Few-Shot Learning with Large Language Models

Carlos Aguirre, Kuleen Sasse, Isabel Cachola +1

Recently, work in NLP has shifted to few-shot (in-context) learning, with large language models (LLMs) performing well across a range of tasks. However, while fairness evaluations…

cs.HC2023★ 8 cited

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…

cs.DL2023★ 59 cited

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…

cs.DL2021★ 9 cited

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…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Faithful and Plausible Explanations of Medical Code Predictions

Zach Wood-Doughty, Isabel Cachola, Mark Dredze

Machine learning models that offer excellent predictive performance often lack the interpretability necessary to support integrated human machine decision-making. In clinical medic…

cs.CL2020

TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

Isabel Cachola, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan +1

We introduce TLDR generation, a new form of extreme summarization, for scientific papers. TLDR generation involves high source compression and requires expert background knowledge…

cs.CL2020

Explaining Relationships Between Scientific Documents

Kelvin Luu, Xinyi Wu, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski +3

We address the task of explaining relationships between two scientific documents using natural language text. This task requires modeling the complex content of long technical docu…