arXiv Computation and Language

SciNLP: A Domain-Specific Benchmark for Full-Text Scientific Entity and Relation Extraction in NLP

SciNLP is a new benchmark dataset for full‑text entity and relation extraction in the NLP domain, comprising 60 manually annotated papers with 6,429 entities and 1,649 relations. It is the first dataset to provide full‑text annotations of entities and their relationships specifically for NLP literature. Experiments show that models trained on SciNLP outperform baselines on certain tasks, and the dataset enabled the automatic construction of a fine‑grained knowledge graph with an average node degree of 3.3.

arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

Custom Named Entity Recognition and Topic Classification for Global Health Publications

This thesis explores how to select and adapt NLP models for global health literature when annotated data and computational resources are scarce. It compares skip‑gram word2vec models trained on increasingly large specialized corpora with BioWordVec for semantic tag discovery, finding that larger coverage does not always yield more useful domain associations. The study also evaluates convolutional spaCy models versus a RoBERTa transformer for named entity recognition, noting a trade‑off between higher F1 scores and longer inference time, and investigates MiniLM few‑shot versus BART‑MNLI zero‑shot classification for multi‑label topic classification, highlighting practical constraints of inference cost. "whyItMatters":"The work provides empirical guidance on balancing model accuracy and resource demands for building knowledge systems in low‑resource global health settings."

By Genis Skura, Antoine Geissb\"uhler, Jean-Luc Falcone
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

CMNIE: An Information Extraction Benchmark for Chinese Military News

CMNIE is a new benchmark for extracting structured information from Chinese military news, covering event triggers, arguments, named entities, and entity relations under a unified schema. The dataset contains 13,000 manually annotated instances with 7 event types, 10 argument roles, 7 entity types, and 8 relation types. Experiments show that current supervised models, zero‑shot LLMs, and fine‑tuned LLMs struggle with relation extraction and exact span matching, highlighting the challenge of joint structured extraction in this domain.

By Yan Yu, Mengna Zhu, Zhenyu Song, Hao Yang, Haiwen Chen, Mao Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

Extracting Dataset Mentions in Forced Displacement and FCV Documents: A Weakly Supervised Framework with LLM-Based Label Refinement

The paper introduces a weakly supervised framework for extracting dataset mentions from forced displacement and Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) documents. It uses a lightweight model trained on general research literature to generate candidate mentions, which are then refined by a large language model that validates or rejects them and corrects boundaries. The refined annotations are augmented with synthetic and contrastive examples to fine‑tune the model, achieving 74.1% precision and 70.5% recall on a benchmark of 1,706 passages, with higher precision (89.5%) on passages that contain dataset references.

By Rafael Macalaba, Aivin V. Solatorio, Patrick Michael Brock, Olivier Dupriez
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Building evidence-based knowledge bases from full-text literature for disease-specific biomedical reasoning

EvidenceNet is a disease‑specific dataset that transforms full‑text biomedical literature into structured evidence records and graph representations, preserving study design, provenance, and quantitative support. Using an LLM‑assisted pipeline, it extracts experimentally grounded findings, normalizes entities, scores evidence quality, and links related records via typed semantic relations. The released subsets—EvidenceNet‑HCC and EvidenceNet‑CRC—contain thousands of evidence records and richly connected graphs, with high extraction and relation‑type accuracy, enabling retrieval‑augmented question answering and graph‑based tasks such as link prediction and target prioritization.

By Chang Zong, Jinyu Chen, Sicheng Lv, Si-tu Xue, Huilin Zheng, Jian Wan, Lei Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

MiNER: Fine-Tuned Biomedical Natural Language Processing for Malaria Disease Entity Recognition in Clinical Texts

The paper introduces MiNER, a fine‑tuned biomedical NLP system that uses BioBERT to extract malaria‑related named entities from scientific literature. It builds a large, annotated corpus of malaria articles, preprocesses the text, and applies supervised learning to improve extraction performance. Experiments show that MiNER outperforms other encoding and machine‑learning methods in precision, recall, and accuracy, and the authors release the human‑labeled dataset for further research.

By V. S. Anoop, Devika N
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

SCOPE and SCION: A Benchmark and an Auditable Reference Pipeline for Schema Induction and Fusion from Text

arXiv:2607. 21610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Schema graphs are an upstream bottleneck of schema-grounded information extraction and knowledge graph construction, yet most extraction systems assume the schema is already available.

By Miaobo Hu, Xiaobo Guo, Shuhao Hu, Bokun Wang, Rui Chen, Xin Wang, Daren Zha, Jun Xiao
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Configurable Semantic Chunking for Biomedical Information Extraction in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces a configurable semantic chunking framework for biomedical information extraction in retrieval‑augmented generation systems. It replaces the fixed‑size chunking stage of BioMedRAG with entity‑preserving windows, trigger‑centered chunking, proposition‑first extraction, tiered trigger prioritization, and hierarchical relation resolution, while keeping the rest of the pipeline unchanged. Experiments on relation extraction benchmarks (GM‑CIHT, DDI, ChemProt) and adverse event classification (ADE) show that the hybrid configuration boosts performance on datasets with explicit relation cues, achieving 82.6% F1 on GM‑CIHT compared to 74.2% with the baseline.

By Riya Ahuja (Institute of Data Science in Biomedicine, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany), Tim Kacprowski (Institute of Data Science in Biomedicine, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany), Roya Shiasi Sardoabi (Institute of Data Science in Biomedicine, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany)