vtechagp-dataset

A structured dataset of Virginia Tech ETD abstracts with academic-to-general-audience paraphrases, useful for NLP and text simplification.

https://github.com/waingram/vtechagp-dataset

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A structured dataset of Virginia Tech ETD abstracts with academic-to-general-audience paraphrases, useful for NLP and text simplification.

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: waingram
License: other
Default Branch: main
Size: 5.35 MB

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Created about 1 year ago · Last pushed about 1 year ago

Metadata Files

Readme Changelog License Citation

VTechAGP: An Academic-to-General-Audience Text Paraphrase Dataset

Variable Descriptions

This dataset contains the following columns:

identifier_url: Persistent identifier (CNRI handle) for the ETD.
title: Title of the ETD.
abstract: Regular abstract for the ETD.
abstract_general: General audience abstract for the ETD.
subject_terms: List of subject terms for the ETD.
discipline: Field of study for the degree awarded.
department: Name of the academic department.
degree: Degree awarded.
degree_level: Level of the degree (e.g., 'doctoral' or 'masters').
type: Type of ETD (e.g., 'thesis' or 'dissertation').

Methodology

This dataset was collected from Virginia Tech's institutional repository,
VTechWorks, using the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) on September 22, 2023.

Citing This Dataset

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:

bibtex @article{ming2024vtechagp, author = {Ming Cheng and Jiaying Gong and Chenhan Yuan and William A. Ingram and Edward A. Fox and Hoda Eldardiry}, title = {VTechAGP: An Academic-to-General-Audience Text Paraphrase Dataset and Benchmark Models}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/2411.04825}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2411.04825}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {2411.04825} }

Ethical & Usage Considerations

Publicly Available Data: All ETD metadata in this dataset was collected from publicly available sources in compliance with institutional repository policies.
Attribution: Users of this dataset should respect citation norms and acknowledge the original authors of the ETDs when appropriate.

Acknowledgment

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
LG-256638-OLS-24.

License

This dataset is released under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By).

Owner

Name: Bill Ingram
Login: waingram
Kind: user
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Company: @VirginiaTech @VTUL

Website: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844
Twitter: sudobear
Repositories: 28
Profile: https://github.com/waingram

Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean and Director of IT University Libraries @VTUL, @VirginiaTech

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "VTechAGP: Academic-to-General-Audience ETD Abstracts"
version: "1.0.0"
authors:
  - family-names: "Ingram"
    given-names: "William A."
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
    orcid: "0000-0002-8307-8844"
  - family-names: "Cheng"
    given-names: "Ming"
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
    orcid: "0009-0006-8475-2331"
  - family-names: "Gong"
    given-names: "Jiaying"
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
  - family-names: "Yuan"
    given-names: "Chenhan"
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
  - family-names: "Fox"
    given-names: "Edward A."
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
    orcid: "0000-0003-1447-6870"
  - family-names: "Eldardiry"
    given-names: "Hoda"
    affiliation: "Virginia Tech"
    orcid: "0000-0002-9712-6667"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.14833933"
license: "ODC-By-1.0"
date-released: "2025-02-06"
repository-code: "https://github.com/waingram/VTechAGP-Dataset"
url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14833933"
keywords:
  - ETDs
  - text simplification
  - academic abstracts
  - paraphrase dataset
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
    - family-names: "Cheng"
      given-names: "Ming"
      orcid: "0009-0006-8475-2331"
    - family-names: "Gong"
      given-names: "Jiaying"
    - family-names: "Yuan"
      given-names: "Chenhan"
    - family-names: "Ingram"
      given-names: "William A."
      orcid: "0000-0002-8307-8844"
    - family-names: "Fox"
      given-names: "Edward A."
      orcid: "0000-0003-1447-6870"
    - family-names: "Eldardiry"
      given-names: "Hoda"
      orcid: "0000-0002-9712-6667"
  title: "VTechAGP: An Academic-to-General-Audience Text Paraphrase Dataset and Benchmark Models"
  journal: "CoRR"
  year: 2024
  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2411.04825"
funding:
  - name: "Institute of Museum and Library Services"
    award_number: "LG-256638-OLS-24"
    award_uri: "https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-256638-ols-24"

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