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TL;DR: how well do machines summarize our work?

  1. James P. Bagrow

    1. University of Vermont, USA.

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The SciTLDR software tool (scitldr.apps.allenai.org) uses machine learning to summarize scientific texts (see Nature https://doi.org/ghmnjj; 2020). Although it is impressive how far natural language processing has come, there is a risk it could distort scientific discourse by stripping away important context and over-amplifying results.

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Nature 590, 36 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00270-1

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