A Human-in-the-Loop Corpus for LLM-Based Simplification of Scientific Summaries

Automatic Generation of Comprehensible German Summaries for Domain-Specific Scientific Definitional Texts

Assessing Transformer Models for Abstractive Summarization of Scientific Articles

The rapid growth of academic literature has intensified the need for effective automatic text summarization techniques capable of producing concise and informative representations of scientific documents. While extractive methods are widely used, they are limited in their ability to generate coherent and semantically rich summaries. Recent advances in Transformer-based architectures have enabled significant progress in abstractive summarization; however, their effectiveness on domain-specific datasets, such as scientific articles, remains an open challenge. In this study, we investigate the performance of three pre-trained Transformer-based models—T5, BART, and GPT-2—on the task of abstractive summarization using the CL-SciSumm 2019 dataset. A total of 19 experimental configurations are conducted to analyze the impact of generation parameters, including beam size, length penalties, and n-gram constraints, on summarization quality. The models are evaluated using ROUGE metrics, with a focus on ROUGE-2.To complement content-based evaluation, this work incorporates linguistic acceptability assessment using the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA), a benchmark dataset for evaluating grammatical correctness. The results show that BART achieves the best performance with an ROUGE-2 F1-score of 0.40664, while T5 demonstrates superior grammatical acceptability, achieving 93.36%, but BART achieves a very near performance to T5. Ultimately, these findings demonstrate the potential of pre-trained neural networks, particularly the BART architecture, to drive the future of complex, generative NLP applications, transforming how academic research is processed and understood.

Synergistic Summarization: An Ensemble of Fine-Tuned and Large-Scale Language Models for Factual and Coherent Scientific Abstracts

The exponential growth of scientific literature has intensified the demand for automated summarization systems capable of producing abstracts that are both linguistically fluent and factually reliable. Existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off: encoder-decoder models such as BART and T5 maintain strong factual grounding but produce rigid, extractive outputs, while decoder-only large language models (LLMs) such as Llama and Gemma generate highly fluent text yet remain susceptible to hallucination. This paper proposes a two-stage Synergistic Hybrid Ensemble framework designed to resolve this dichotomy. In Stage 1, a fine-tuned BART-Large model generates a factually grounded scaffold draft from a structured input representation comprising the document title, key sentences, method highlights, and results summary. In Stage 2, a QLoRA-adapted Llama-3.2-1B model performs coherent rewriting and stylistic polishing by conditioning on both the scaffold draft and the original source document. Experiments conducted on the arXiv Scientific Research Papers Dataset using BERTScore and entailment-based Factual Consistency metrics demonstrate that the proposed ensemble achieves a Factual Consistency metrics demonstrate that the proposed ensemble achieves a Factual Consistency score of 0.9140, substantially outperforming BART-Large (0.2890) and Llama-3.2-1B (0.6630) individually. Although the ensemble incurs a marginal reduction in BERTScore (0.8980) relative to Llama-3.2-1B (0.9555), this trade-off is justified given the critical importance of factual reliability in high-stakes scientific discourse. These findings confirm that anchoring the generative capacity of decoder-only LLMs to verified factual scaffolds effectively mitigates hallucination risk, offering a scalable and reproducible solution for high-fidelity scientific abstract generation.

A Reassessment of TextRank: Graph-Based Extractive Summarization in the Era of Large Language Models- A Systematic Review

This survey presents a systematic review of 121 references spanning 2002 to 2026, tracing the evolution of TextRank-based approaches into hybrid LLM pipelines and advancing three qualified arguments.

Controllable Sentence Simplification in Italian: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models on Automatically Generated Resources

Reexamining zero-shot summarization: Empirical investigation of trustworthiness of LLM-summarizers

Zero-shot summarization using Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the abstractive summarization task by producing coherent and fluent summaries. However, underlying stochasticity of the large language models raises concerns about the stability and trustworthiness of the LLM-generated summaries. This issue has become increasingly important due to proliferation of LLM-generated summaries in educational settings, where students and researchers summarize complex academic materials in zero-shot manner. We propose a novel two-level diagnostic protocol for benchmarking LLM-summarizers based on the stability of the generated summaries. At the lower level, document-level stability analysis is performed over multiple LLM-summaries generated under controlled environment, and the stability coefficient is computed. Each generated summary is scored for semantic and factual alignment with the original document, enabling estimation of stability along more than one dimensions. At the next level, observations from a stratified sample of documents drawn from the corpus are consolidated to estimate the stability index of the LLM-summarizer, which is the proxy for its trustworthiness. Our empirical investigation of three LLM-summarizers across three genres of documents reveals statistically significant differences in the generation-level variability among LLMs across summary evaluation metrics. This study advances the LLM-summarization research by evidential recognition of the stability problem in LLM-summaries and motivates further research towards development of robust, reliable and trustworthy LLM-summarizers.