Query Specific Focused Summarization of Biomedical Journal Articles

During COVID-19, a large repository of relevant literature, termed as "CORD-19", was released by Allen Institute of AI. The repository being very large, and growing exponentially, concerned users are struggling to retrieve only required information from the documents. In this paper, we present a framework for generating focused summaries of journal articles. The summary is generated using a novel optimization mechanism to ensure that it definitely contains all essential scientific content. The parameters for summarization are drawn from the variables that are used for reporting scientific studies. We have evaluated our results on the CORD-19 dataset. The approach however is generic.