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Main Authors: Wang, Xin, Raj, Anshu, Luebbe, Matthew, Wen, Haiming, Xu, Shuozhi, Lu, Kun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05142
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author Wang, Xin
Raj, Anshu
Luebbe, Matthew
Wen, Haiming
Xu, Shuozhi
Lu, Kun
author_facet Wang, Xin
Raj, Anshu
Luebbe, Matthew
Wen, Haiming
Xu, Shuozhi
Lu, Kun
contents Data-driven materials discovery requires large-scale experimental datasets, yet most of the information remains trapped in unstructured literature. Existing extraction efforts often focus on a limited set of features and have not addressed the integrated composition-processing-microstructure-property relationships essential for understanding materials behavior, thereby posing challenges for building comprehensive databases. To address this gap, we propose a multi-stage information extraction pipeline powered by large language models, which captures 47 features spanning composition, processing, microstructure, and properties exclusively from experimentally reported materials. The pipeline integrates iterative extraction with source tracking to enhance both accuracy and reliability. Evaluations at the feature level (independent attributes) and tuple level (interdependent features) yielded F1 scores around 0.96. Compared with single-pass extraction without source tracking, our approach improved F1 scores of microstructure category by 10.0% (feature level) and 13.7% (tuple level), and reduced missed materials from 49 to 13 out of 396 materials in 100 articles on precipitate-containing multi-principal element alloys (miss rate reduced from 12.4% to 3.3%). The pipeline enables scalable and efficient literature mining, producing databases with high precision, minimal omissions, and zero false positives. These datasets provide trustworthy inputs for machine learning and materials informatics, while the modular design generalizes to diverse material classes, enabling comprehensive materials information extraction.
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spellingShingle Reliable End-to-End Material Information Extraction from the Literature with Source-Tracked Multi-Stage Large Language Models
Wang, Xin
Raj, Anshu
Luebbe, Matthew
Wen, Haiming
Xu, Shuozhi
Lu, Kun
Computation and Language
Materials Science
Data-driven materials discovery requires large-scale experimental datasets, yet most of the information remains trapped in unstructured literature. Existing extraction efforts often focus on a limited set of features and have not addressed the integrated composition-processing-microstructure-property relationships essential for understanding materials behavior, thereby posing challenges for building comprehensive databases. To address this gap, we propose a multi-stage information extraction pipeline powered by large language models, which captures 47 features spanning composition, processing, microstructure, and properties exclusively from experimentally reported materials. The pipeline integrates iterative extraction with source tracking to enhance both accuracy and reliability. Evaluations at the feature level (independent attributes) and tuple level (interdependent features) yielded F1 scores around 0.96. Compared with single-pass extraction without source tracking, our approach improved F1 scores of microstructure category by 10.0% (feature level) and 13.7% (tuple level), and reduced missed materials from 49 to 13 out of 396 materials in 100 articles on precipitate-containing multi-principal element alloys (miss rate reduced from 12.4% to 3.3%). The pipeline enables scalable and efficient literature mining, producing databases with high precision, minimal omissions, and zero false positives. These datasets provide trustworthy inputs for machine learning and materials informatics, while the modular design generalizes to diverse material classes, enabling comprehensive materials information extraction.
title Reliable End-to-End Material Information Extraction from the Literature with Source-Tracked Multi-Stage Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05142