HULAT-UC3M at BiolaySumm: Adaptation of BioBART and Longformer models to summarizing biomedical documents

AbstractThis article presents our submission to the Bio- LaySumm 2024 shared task: Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles. The objective of this task is to generate summaries that are simplified in a concise and less technical way, in order to facilitate comprehension by non-experts users. A pre-trained BioBART model was employed to fine-tune the articles from the two journals, thereby generating two models, one for each journal. The submission achieved the 12th best ranking in the task, attaining a meritorious first place in the Relevance ROUGE-1 metric.