Making Health Knowledge Accessible Through Personalized Language Processing

Abstract: The pandemic exposed the difficulties the general public faces when attempting to use scientific information to guide their health-related decisions. Though widely available in scientific papers, the information required to guide these decisions is often not accessible: medical jargon, scientific writing styles, and insufficient background explanations make this information opaque to non-experts. Consequently, there is a pressing need to deliver scientific knowledge in lay language, which has motivated researches on automated plain language summary generation to make the health …

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