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Approach: They propose a machine learning-based procedural information extraction and knowledge management system that extracts procedural recipe steps, figures, and tables from materials science articles.
Outcome: The proposed system extracts procedural information recipe steps, figures, and tables from materials science articles and provides information retrieval capability and statistics visualization functionality.

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