Generation of Contributions of Scientific Paper Based on Multi-step Sentence Selecting-and-Rewriting Model

There has been a significant surge in the number of scientific papers published in recent years,which makes it challen-ging for researchers to keep up with the latest advancements in their fields.To stay updated,researchers often rely on reading the contributions section of papers,which serves as a concise summary of the key research findings.However,it is not uncommon for authors to inadequately present the innovative content of their articles,making it difficult for readers to quickly grasp the essence of the research.To address this issue,we propose a novel task of contribution summarization to automatically generate contribution summaries of scientific papers.One of the challenges of this task is the lack of relevant datasets.Therefore,we construct a scientific contribution summarization corpus(SCSC).Another issue lies in the fact that currently available abstractive or extractive models tend to suffer from either excessive redundancy or a lack of coherence between sentences.To meet the demand of ge-nerating concise and high-quality contribution sentences,we present MSSRsum,a multi-step sentence selecting-and-rewriting model.Experiments show that the proposed model outperforms baselines on SCSC and arXiv datasets.