NLP meets Materials Science: Quantifying the presentation of materials data in scientific literature
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The recent and sudden emergence of Large Language Models have profoundly changed the landscape around how we approach and interact with information. Materials Science, given its highly complex and multifaceted nature, is a space we intend for Natural Language Processing to absolutely flip the script related to progress, learning, and especially new materials discovery, as a result of enhanced data accessibility. We explore the underlying patterns and structures of data expression across a number of randomly selected materials science papers, annotating relevant data by type (category) and source (channel) as a starting point to future Materials Science specific information extraction and LLM development.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.023 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it