PolyMinder: A Support System for Entity Annotation and Relation Extraction in Polymer Science Documents

Truong Dinh Do, An Hoang Trieu, Van-Thuy Phi, Minh Le Nguyen, Yuji Matsumoto


Abstract
The growing volume of scientific literature in polymer science presents a significant challenge for researchers attempting to extract and annotate domain-specific entities, such as polymer names, material properties, and related information. Manual annotation of these documents is both time-consuming and prone to error due to the complexity of scientific language. To address this, we introduce PolyMinder, an automated support system designed to assist polymer scientists in extracting and annotating polymer-related entities and their relationships from scientific documents. The system utilizes recent advanced Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) models tailored to the polymer domain. PolyMinder streamlines the annotation process by providing a web-based interface where users can visualize, verify, and refine the extracted information before finalizing the annotations. The system’s source code is made publicly available to facilitate further research and development in this field. Our system can be accessed through the following URL: https://www.jaist.ac.jp/is/labs/nguyen-lab/systems/polyminder
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2025.coling-demos.1
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert, Brodie Mather, Mark Dras
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–8
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Truong Dinh Do, An Hoang Trieu, Van-Thuy Phi, Minh Le Nguyen, and Yuji Matsumoto. 2025. PolyMinder: A Support System for Entity Annotation and Relation Extraction in Polymer Science Documents. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 1–8, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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PolyMinder: A Support System for Entity Annotation and Relation Extraction in Polymer Science Documents (Do et al., COLING 2025)
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