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Lay Summarization
5 papers with code · 2 benchmarks · 4 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Summarizing a technical or scientific document in simple, non-technical language that is comprehensible to a lay person (non-expert).
Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
2 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 2 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.
| Dataset | Best model (first row in archive order) | Paper | Code | Syntology | Compare |
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| eLife (1 row) | BART | Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of... | code | — | Compare |
| PLOS (1 row) | BART | Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of... | code | — | Compare |
Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
Libraries
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Datasets archive 2025-07-28
4 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.
Subtasks archive 2025-07-28
No subtask under this task in the archive's task tree.
Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28
Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28
5 shown of 5 papers with code (11 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.
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16 Oct 2023 1 repository listedReadability refers to how easily a reader can understand a written text.
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18 Oct 2022 1 repository listedLay summarisation aims to jointly summarise and simplify a given text, thus making its content more comprehensible to non-experts.
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1 Nov 2020 1 repository listedLay summarization aims to generate lay summaries of scientific papers automatically.
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1 Nov 2020 1 repository listedWe describe our approach for the 1st Computational Linguistics Lay Summary Shared Task CL-LaySumm20.
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19 Oct 2020 1 repository listedLay summarization aims to generate lay summaries of scientific papers automatically.
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