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Information Extraction of Technical Details From Scholarly Articles

Abstract

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Researchers have made significant progress in information extraction from short documents in the last few years, including social media interaction, news articles, and email excerpts. This research aims to extract technical entities like hardware resources, computing platforms, compute time, programming language, and libraries from scholarly research articles. Research articles are generally long documents having both salient as well as non-salient entities. Analyzing the cross-sectional relation, filtering the relevant information, measuring the saliency of mentioned entities, and extracting novel entities are some of the technical challenges involved in this research. This work presents a detailed study about the performance, effectiveness, and scalability of rule-based weakly supervised algorithms. We also develop an automated end-to-end Research Entity and Relationship Extractor (E2R Extractor). Additionally, we perform a comprehensive study about the effectiveness of existing deep learning-based information extraction tools like Dygie, Dygie++, SciREX. The research also contributes a dataset containing novel entities annotated in BILUO format and represents the baseline results using the E2R extractor on the proposed dataset. The results indicate that the E2R extractor successfully extracts salient entities from research articles.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Science and Applications
Department dc:contributor.department
Computer Science
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2021

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Kaushal, Kulendra Kumar
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Ramakrishnan, Narendran
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Butler, Patrick Julian Carey
  • Lu, Chang Tien

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:31609
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/112825

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2026-07-22
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citation

Kaushal, Kulendra Kumar. Information Extraction of Technical Details From Scholarly Articles. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112825