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Symlink: A New Dataset for Scientific Symbol-Description Linking

Computation and Language 2022-04-27 v1

Abstract

Mathematical symbols and descriptions appear in various forms across document section boundaries without explicit markup. In this paper, we present a new large-scale dataset that emphasizes extracting symbols and descriptions in scientific documents. Symlink annotates scientific papers of 5 different domains (i.e., computer science, biology, physics, mathematics, and economics). Our experiments on Symlink demonstrate the challenges of the symbol-description linking task for existing models and call for further research effort in this area. We will publicly release Symlink to facilitate future research.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12070,
  title  = {Symlink: A New Dataset for Scientific Symbol-Description Linking},
  author = {Viet Dac Lai and Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh and Franck Dernoncourt and Thien Huu Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12070},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2202.09695