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John Dagdelen^1,2, Alexander Dunn^1,2, Sanghoon Lee^1,2

¹Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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We developed a simple machine learning method using large language models to extract structured scientific knowledge from text. This approach efficiently creates large databases for materials chemistry research.

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Area of Science:

Materials Chemistry
Computational Science
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Extracting structured knowledge from scientific literature is a significant challenge for machine learning.
Existing methods may lack the flexibility to handle diverse scientific data types.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a simple, accessible approach for joint named entity recognition and relation extraction.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of fine-tuning pretrained large language models (LLMs) for scientific knowledge extraction.
To create large, structured databases from scientific research papers.

Main Methods:

Fine-tuning pretrained LLMs (GPT-3, Llama-2) for named entity recognition and relation extraction.
Applying the method to three materials chemistry tasks: dopant-host linking, metal-organic framework cataloging, and composition/phase/morphology/application extraction.
Processing text from single sentences to entire paragraphs.

Main Results:

Successfully extracted structured records of complex scientific knowledge.
Demonstrated flexibility in output formats, including simple English sentences and JSON objects.
Showcased the potential for creating large, specialized scientific knowledge databases.

Conclusions:

The proposed approach offers a highly flexible and accessible route to automated scientific knowledge extraction.
Fine-tuning LLMs is a viable strategy for building structured databases from unstructured scientific text.
This method can significantly accelerate the curation of scientific data for research and development.