Enriching a Time-Domain Astrophysics Corpus with Named Entity, Coreference and Astrophysical Relationship Annotations

Atilla Kaan Alkan, Felix Grezes, Cyril Grouin, Fabian Schussler, Pierre Zweigenbaum


Abstract
Interest in Astrophysical Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increased recently, fueled by the development of specialized language models for information extraction. However, the scarcity of annotated resources for this domain is still a significant challenge. Most existing corpora are limited to Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, leaving a gap in resource diversity. To address this gap and facilitate a broader spectrum of NLP research in astrophysics, we introduce astroECR, an extension of our previously built Time-Domain Astrophysics Corpus (TDAC). Our contributions involve expanding it to cover named entities, coreferences, annotations related to astrophysical relationships, and normalizing celestial object names. We showcase practical utility through baseline models for four NLP tasks and provide the research community access to our corpus, code, and models.
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2024.lrec-main.545
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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6177–6188
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Atilla Kaan Alkan, Felix Grezes, Cyril Grouin, Fabian Schussler, and Pierre Zweigenbaum. 2024. Enriching a Time-Domain Astrophysics Corpus with Named Entity, Coreference and Astrophysical Relationship Annotations. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 6177–6188, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Enriching a Time-Domain Astrophysics Corpus with Named Entity, Coreference and Astrophysical Relationship Annotations (Alkan et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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