PcMSP: A Dataset for Scientific Action Graphs Extraction from Polycrystalline Materials Synthesis Procedure Text (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | 305 open access scientific articles are used for synthesis action graphs . lack of annotated data has hindered progress in this field . |
| 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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