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Identifying problems and solutions in scientific text.

Kevin Heffernan¹, Simone Teufel¹

¹Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD UK.

|August 28, 2018

Summary

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This study introduces an automatic classifier to identify scientific problems and solutions within research text. The model achieved high accuracy, aiding in the analysis of scientific discourse.

Keywords:

Discourse Machine learning Problem-solving patterns

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Area of Science:

Computational Linguistics
Scientific Communication
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Scientific research is fundamentally a problem-solving endeavor.
Identifying problem and solution statements is crucial for understanding scientific discourse.
Existing methods for automated identification are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an automatic classifier for identifying problem and solution statements in scientific text.
To improve the analysis of scientific discourse through computational methods.

Main Methods:

Framed the task as a supervised machine learning problem.
Created a corpus of 2000 labeled examples (problems and solutions).
Utilized 15 features, including part-of-speech tags and word embeddings, with various machine learning algorithms.

Main Results:

The classifier distinguished problems from non-problems with 82.3% accuracy.
The classifier distinguished solutions from non-solutions with 79.7% accuracy.
Syntactic information (POS tags) and embeddings were the most effective features.

Conclusions:

Automated classification of scientific problems and solutions is feasible with high accuracy.
Machine learning models, particularly those using linguistic features, can effectively analyze scientific text.
This tool can enhance the systematic analysis of research communication.