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Transformer-Based Models for the Automatic Indexing of Scientific Documents in French

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Automatic indexing is a challenging task in which computers must emulate the behaviour of professional indexers to assign to a document some keywords or keyphrases that represent concisely the content of the document. While most of the existing algorithms are based on a select-and-rank strategy, it has been shown that selecting only keywords from text is not ideal as human annotators tend to assign keywords that are not present in the source. This problem is more evident in scholarly literature. In this work we leverage a transformer-based language model to approach the automatic indexing task from a generative point of view. In this way we overcome the problem of keywords that are not in the original document, as the neural language models can rely on knowledge acquired during their training process. We apply our method to a French collection of annotated scientific articles.

Supported by: the AMIC-PoC project (PDC2021-120846-C44), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/“PRTR”, a public grant overseen by ANR as part of the program “Investissements d’Avenir” (reference: ANR-10-LABX-0083) and the Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la Universitat Politècnica de València (PAID-11-21).

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González, J.Á., Buscaldi, D., Sanchis, E., Hurtado, LF. (2022). Transformer-Based Models for the Automatic Indexing of Scientific Documents in French. In: Rosso, P., Basile, V., Martínez, R., Métais, E., Meziane, F. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08473-7_6

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