Issue 39, 2022

BatteryDataExtractor: battery-aware text-mining software embedded with BERT models

Abstract

Due to the massive growth of scientific publications, literature mining is becoming increasingly popular for researchers to thoroughly explore scientific text and extract such data to create new databases or augment existing databases. Efforts in literature-mining software design and implementation have improved text-mining productivity, but most of the toolkits that mine text are based on traditional machine-learning-algorithms which hinder the performance of downstream text-mining tasks. Natural-language processing (NLP) and text-mining technologies have seen a rapid development since the release of transformer models, such as bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT). Upgrading rule-based or machine-learning-based literature-mining toolkits by embedding transformer models into the software is therefore likely to improve their text-mining performance. To this end, we release a Python-based literature-mining toolkit for the field of battery materials, BatteryDataExtractor, which involves the embedding of BatteryBERT models in its automated data-extraction pipeline. This pipeline employs BERT models for token-classification tasks, such as abbreviation detection, part-of-speech tagging, and chemical-named-entity recognition, as well as new double-turn question-answering data-extraction models for auto-generating repositories of inter-related material and property data as well as general information. We demonstrate that BatteryDataExtractor exhibits state-of-the-art performance on the evaluation data sets for both token classification and automated data extraction. To aid the use of BatteryDataExtractor, its code is provided as open-source software, with associated documentation to serve as a user guide.

Graphical abstract: BatteryDataExtractor: battery-aware text-mining software embedded with BERT models

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
03 8 2022
Accepted
05 9 2022
First published
23 9 2022
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 11487-11495

BatteryDataExtractor: battery-aware text-mining software embedded with BERT models

S. Huang and J. M. Cole, Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 11487 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC04322J

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