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Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text.

Viktor Domazetoski¹, Holger Kreft^1,2,3, Helena Bestova^1,2

¹Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology, and Biogeography University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany.

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This study introduces a natural language processing pipeline to extract plant functional traits from text. The method significantly improves data extraction accuracy, aiding ecological research.

Keywords:

automatic trait extraction biodiversity functional plant ecology large language models natural language processing vascular plants

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Functional plant ecology relies on trait data for understanding species distributions and ecosystem functions.
Existing global trait datasets have limitations, and manual data extraction is time-consuming and expensive.
Automated extraction of plant traits from textual sources using machine learning is needed to complement field data.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for extracting plant functional traits from unstructured text.
To compare the performance of the NLP pipeline against traditional methods like regular expressions.
To assess the pipeline's effectiveness for both categorical and numerical plant traits.

Main Methods:

A novel NLP pipeline was designed, incorporating classification models for categorical traits and question-answering models for numerical traits.

The pipeline was tested on two extensive databases containing over 50,000 species descriptions.

Various machine learning approaches, including transformer architectures and large language models, were explored.

Main Results:

The optimized NLP pipeline achieved high performance, with a mean precision of 90.8% and mean recall of 88.6% for categorical traits.
This represents a significant improvement over regular expression methods, with a 9.83% increase in precision and 42.35% increase in recall.
The question-answering model for numerical traits demonstrated a normalized mean absolute error of 10.3%.

Conclusions:

The proposed NLP pipeline effectively automates the extraction of plant functional trait information from diverse textual sources.
This approach has the potential to greatly accelerate the digitization and utilization of vast amounts of ecological data.
The findings support the use of advanced NLP techniques to overcome data gaps in functional plant ecology.