Automatic Generation of Highlights for Academic Paper Via Prompt-based Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25253v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:56 GMT
• Title: Automatic Generation of Highlights for Academic Paper Via Prompt-based Learning
• Abstract summary: Highlights provide a concise summary of the main contributions of an academic paper.<n>Many journals do not provide highlights, which limits their use in literature retrieval, text mining, and bibliometric analysis.<n>This study investigates prompt-based learning for automatic highlight generation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Highlights provide a concise summary of the main contributions of an academic paper and help readers quickly understand its focus. However, many journals do not provide highlights, which limits their use in literature retrieval, text mining, and bibliometric analysis. Existing studies have explored supervised learning methods for automatic highlight extraction, but these methods usually require large amounts of labeled training data. This study investigates prompt-based learning for automatic highlight generation. We design task-specific prompt templates and combine them with paper abstracts as model inputs. Several language models are evaluated, including locally deployed pre-trained models such as GPT-2 and T5, as well as ChatGPT accessed through an API. Experiments on three datasets show that ChatGPT with prompt templates achieves performance comparable to previous supervised methods without using task-specific training samples. When a small number of examples are added to the prompts, the model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two datasets. We further analyze how prompt design affects generation quality and find that, although ChatGPT has strong language modeling ability, its performance on this task is highly sensitive to the information provided in the prompt. Case studies also show that the generated highlights are generally coherent, informative, and close to author-written highlights. This study is among the first to apply prompt-based learning to academic highlight generation. The proposed method does not rely on domain-specific training corpora and can generate highlights for papers that lack such information, thereby supporting downstream text mining and bibliometric research.

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