Research Article (preprint): Use of LLMs in Preparing Accessible Scientific Papers

The article (preprint) linked below was recently made available on arXiv.

Title

Use of LLMs in Preparing Accessible Scientific Papers

Authors

Allison Doami
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Christine James
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Dan Lu
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Lia Prins
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Annette Torrence
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Boris Veytsman
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
George Mason University

Source

via arXiv

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.00826

Abstract

Making scientific papers accessible may require reprocessing old papers to create output compliant with accessibility standards. An important step there is to convert the visual formatting to the logical one. In this report we describe our attempt at zero shot conversion of arXiv papers. Our results are mixed: while it is possible to do conversion, the reliability is not too good. We discuss alternative approaches to this problem.

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