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L+M-24: Building a Dataset for Language + Molecules @ ACL 2024

Computation and Language 2024-07-08 v2 Artificial Intelligence Biomolecules Quantitative Methods

Abstract

Language-molecule models have emerged as an exciting direction for molecular discovery and understanding. However, training these models is challenging due to the scarcity of molecule-language pair datasets. At this point, datasets have been released which are 1) small and scraped from existing databases, 2) large but noisy and constructed by performing entity linking on the scientific literature, and 3) built by converting property prediction datasets to natural language using templates. In this document, we detail the L+M-24\textit{L+M-24} dataset, which has been created for the Language + Molecules Workshop shared task at ACL 2024. In particular, L+M-24\textit{L+M-24} is designed to focus on three key benefits of natural language in molecule design: compositionality, functionality, and abstraction.

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@article{arxiv.2403.00791,
  title  = {L+M-24: Building a Dataset for Language + Molecules @ ACL 2024},
  author = {Carl Edwards and Qingyun Wang and Lawrence Zhao and Heng Ji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00791},
  year   = {2024}
}

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The dataset, finetuned baselines, and evaluation code are released publicly at https://github.com/language-plus-molecules/LPM-24-Dataset through https://huggingface.co/language-plus-molecules

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