We develop a methodology to collect and process scientific papers into a format ready for synthesis using the Open Research Knowledge Graph, a multidisciplinary platform that facilitates the comparison of scientific contributions. Where later, we introduce new synthesis types —- paper-wise, methodological, and thematic —- that focus on different aspects of the extracted insights. Utilizing Mistral-7B and GPT4 , we generate a large-scale dataset of these syntheses. The established nine quality criteria for evaluating these syntheses, assessed by both an automated LLM evaluator (GPT-4) and a human-crowdsourced survey.
corpus
: Contains ORKG Synthesis dataset for bot GPT-4 and Mistral-7B for three synthesis objectives (paper-wise, methodological, and thematic). Also Prolific Human Survey Results.gpt-4 synthesis-evaluator
: ContainsEvaluation System Prompt
and evaluator script.orkg-comparison-data-gen-scripts
: Synthesis generation scripts.synthesis-generation-prompts
: Synthesis generation prompts for paper-wise, methodological, and thematic objectives.
The Prolific Survey Participant Demographics available at Table 1 in the corpus/prolific
directory.
Also the average human and automatic (LLM) evaluation available at Table 2 in the corpus/prolific
directory, representing average human and LLM evaluation scores by characteristic comparisons. For each domain/characteristic, the human scores are an average of 18 judgements (6 syntheses (2 samples x 3 synthesis types) x 3 participants) while the auto scores are an average of 6 judgements (6 syntheses (2 samples x 3 synthesis types) x 1 LLM evaluation).
The LLMs4Synthesis framework on top of this dataset is available at https://github.com/HamedBabaei/LLMs4Synthesis.
If you find this work useful, please consider citing our research papers listed below.
@inproceedings{evans-etal-2024-large,
title = "Large Language Models as Evaluators for Scientific Synthesis",
author = {Evans, Julia and
D{'}Souza, Jennifer and
Auer, S{\"o}ren},
editor = "Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique and
Baumann, Andreas and
Gromann, Dagmar and
Krenn, Brigitte and
Roth, Benjamin and
Wiegand, Michael",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)",
month = sep,
year = "2024",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.konvens-main.1/",
pages = "1--22"
}
@inbook{babaei-giglou-etal-2025-synthesis,
author = {Babaei Giglou, Hamed and D'Souza, Jennifer and Auer, S\"{o}ren},
title = {LLMs4Synthesis: Leveraging Large Language Models for Scientific Synthesis},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400710933},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3677389.3702565},
articleno = {31},
numpages = {12}
}