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Approach: They propose to annotate Polycrystalline Materials Synthesis Procedures PcMSP from 305 open access scientific articles for the construction of synthesis action graphs.
Outcome: The proposed dataset contains the synthesis sentences, entity mentions and intra-sentence relations extracted from the experimental paragraphs.

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