The SOFC-Exp Corpus and Neural Approaches to Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain

Annemarie Friedrich, Heike Adel, Federico Tomazic, Johannes Hingerl, Renou Benteau, Anika Marusczyk, Lukas Lange


Abstract
This paper presents a new challenging information extraction task in the domain of materials science. We develop an annotation scheme for marking information on experiments related to solid oxide fuel cells in scientific publications, such as involved materials and measurement conditions. With this paper, we publish our annotation guidelines, as well as our SOFC-Exp corpus consisting of 45 open-access scholarly articles annotated by domain experts. A corpus and an inter-annotator agreement study demonstrate the complexity of the suggested named entity recognition and slot filling tasks as well as high annotation quality. We also present strong neural-network based models for a variety of tasks that can be addressed on the basis of our new data set. On all tasks, using BERT embeddings leads to large performance gains, but with increasing task complexity, adding a recurrent neural network on top seems beneficial. Our models will serve as competitive baselines in future work, and analysis of their performance highlights difficult cases when modeling the data and suggests promising research directions.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.116
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1255–1268
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.116
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.116
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Cite (ACL):
Annemarie Friedrich, Heike Adel, Federico Tomazic, Johannes Hingerl, Renou Benteau, Anika Marusczyk, and Lukas Lange. 2020. The SOFC-Exp Corpus and Neural Approaches to Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1255–1268, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
The SOFC-Exp Corpus and Neural Approaches to Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain (Friedrich et al., ACL 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.116.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38928792
Code
 boschresearch/sofc-exp_textmining_resources
Data
SOFC-Exp