Description

We present SciDMT, an enhanced and expanded corpus for scientific mention detection, offering a significant advancement over existing related resources. SciDMT contains annotated scientific documents for datasets (D), methods (M), and tasks (T). The corpus consists of two components:

the SciDMT main corpus, which includes 48 thousand scientific articles with over 1.8 million weakly annotated mention annotations in the format of in-text span, and
an evaluation set, which comprises 100 scientific articles manually annotated for evaluation purposes.

To the best of our knowledge, SciDMT is the largest corpus for scientific entity mention detection. The corpus’s scale and diversity are instrumental in developing and refining models for tasks such as indexing scientific papers, enhancing information retrieval, and improving the accessibility of scientific knowledge. We demonstrate the corpus’s utility through experiments with advanced deep learning architectures like SciBERT and GPT-3.5. Our findings establish performance baselines and highlight unresolved challenges in scientific mention detection. SciDMT serves as a robust benchmark for the research community, encouraging the development of innovative models to further the field of scientific information extraction.

Files

'DICT': './SciDMT_dict.json',

# machine learning inputs at sentence level
'sent_xy': './SciDMT_sentences.p', 
'sent_eval': './SciDMT_E_sentences.json',
'sent_split': './SciDMT_sentences_split.json',

# document level inputs
'doc_split': './SciDMT_split.json',
'doc_eval': './SciDMT_E_human_annotations.json',
'doc_text_and_meta': './SciDMT_papers.csv',

Usage

SciDMT_demo.ipynb describes how to open the files and print out the file structures.

Download repository

git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/jopan/SciDMT

Citation

@inproceedings{pan-etal-2024-scidmt,
    title = "{S}ci{DMT}: A Large-Scale Corpus for Detecting Scientific Mentions",
    author = "Pan, Huitong  and
      Zhang, Qi  and
      Caragea, Cornelia  and
      Dragut, Eduard  and
      Latecki, Longin Jan",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1256",
    pages = "14407--14417",
    abstract = "We present SciDMT, an enhanced and expanded corpus for scientific mention detection, offering a significant advancement over existing related resources. SciDMT contains annotated scientific documents for datasets (D), methods (M), and tasks (T). The corpus consists of two components: 1) the SciDMT main corpus, which includes 48 thousand scientific articles with over 1.8 million weakly annotated mention annotations in the format of in-text span, and 2) an evaluation set, which comprises 100 scientific articles manually annotated for evaluation purposes. To the best of our knowledge, SciDMT is the largest corpus for scientific entity mention detection. The corpus{'}s scale and diversity are instrumental in developing and refining models for tasks such as indexing scientific papers, enhancing information retrieval, and improving the accessibility of scientific knowledge. We demonstrate the corpus{'}s utility through experiments with advanced deep learning architectures like SciBERT and GPT-3.5. Our findings establish performance baselines and highlight unresolved challenges in scientific mention detection. SciDMT serves as a robust benchmark for the research community, encouraging the development of innovative models to further the field of scientific information extraction.",
}