Material Named Entity Recognition (MNER) for Knowledge-driven Materials Using Deep Learning Approach

Abstract: The scientific literature contains a wealth of cutting-edge knowledge in the field of materials science, as well as useful data (e.g., numerical data from experimental results, material properties and structure). These data are critical for data-driven ML and deep learning (DL) methods to accelerate material discovery. Due to the large and growing number of publications, it is difficult for humans to manually retrieve and retain this knowledge. In this context, we investigate a deep neural network model based on Bi-LSTM to retrieve knowledge from published scientific articles. The proposed deep neural network-based model achieves an f-1 score of ~97\% for the Material Named Entity Recognition (MNER) task. The study addresses motivation, relevant work, methodology, hyperparameters, and overall performance evaluation. The analysis provides insight into the results of the experiment and points to future directions for current research.