The STEM-ECR Dataset

Grounding Scientific Entity References in STEM Scholarly Content to Authoritative Encyclopedic and Lexicographic Sources

authored by

Jennifer D'Souza, Anett Hoppe, Arthur Brack, Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh, Sören Auer, Ralph Ewerth

Abstract

We introduce the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine) Dataset for Scientific Entity Extraction, Classification, and Resolution, version 1.0 (STEM-ECR v1.0). The STEM-ECR v1.0 dataset has been developed to provide a benchmark for the evaluation of scientific entity extraction, classification, and resolution tasks in a domain-independent fashion. It comprises abstracts in 10 STEM disciplines that were found to be the most prolific ones on a major publishing platform. We describe the creation of such a multidisciplinary corpus and highlight the obtained findings in terms of the following features: 1) a generic conceptual formalism for scientific entities in a multidisciplinary scientific context; 2) the feasibility of the domain-independent human annotation of scientific entities under such a generic formalism; 3) a performance benchmark obtainable for automatic extraction of multidisciplinary scientific entities using BERT-based neural models; 4) a delineated 3-step entity resolution procedure for human annotation of the scientific entities via encyclopedic entity linking and lexicographic word sense disambiguation; and 5) human evaluations of Babelfy returned encyclopedic links and lexicographic senses for our entities. Our findings cumulatively indicate that human annotation and automatic learning of multidisciplinary scientific concepts as well as their semantic disambiguation in a wide-ranging setting as STEM is reasonable.

External Organisation(s)

German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

2192-2203

No. of pages

12

Publication date

05.2020

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education, Library and Information Sciences, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Electronic version(s)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01006 (Access: Open)
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.268.pdf (Access: Closed)