A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method

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Main Authors: Cai, Feiyang, He, Guijuan, Hu, Yi, Wang, Jingjing, Luo, Joshua, Zhu, Tianyu, Pilla, Srikanth, Li, Gang, Liu, Ling, Luo, Feng
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author Cai, Feiyang
He, Guijuan
Hu, Yi
Wang, Jingjing
Luo, Joshua
Zhu, Tianyu
Pilla, Srikanth
Li, Gang
Liu, Ling
Luo, Feng
author_facet Cai, Feiyang
He, Guijuan
Hu, Yi
Wang, Jingjing
Luo, Joshua
Zhu, Tianyu
Pilla, Srikanth
Li, Gang
Liu, Ling
Luo, Feng
contents Molecular function is largely determined by structure. Accurately aligning molecular structure with natural language is therefore essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason about downstream chemical tasks. However, the substantial cost of human annotation makes it infeasible to construct large-scale, high-quality datasets of structure-grounded descriptions. In this work, we propose a fully automated annotation framework for generating precise molecular descriptions that preserve complete structural details at scale. Our approach builds upon and extends a rule-based chemical nomenclature parser to interpret IUPAC names and construct enriched, structural XML metadata that explicitly encodes molecular structure. This metadata is then used to guide LLMs in producing accurate natural-language descriptions. Using this framework, we curate a large-scale dataset of approximately $163$k molecule--description pairs. A rigorous validation protocol combining LLM-based and expert human evaluation on a subset of $2,000$ molecules demonstrates a high description precision of $98.6$%. The proposed annotation framework is readily beneficial to broader chemical tasks that rely on structural descriptions, with the resulting dataset providing a reliable foundation for molecule--language alignment. The source code and dataset are hosted at https://github.com/TheLuoFengLab/MolLangData and https://huggingface.co/datasets/ChemFM/MolLangData, respectively.
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spellingShingle A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method
Cai, Feiyang
He, Guijuan
Hu, Yi
Wang, Jingjing
Luo, Joshua
Zhu, Tianyu
Pilla, Srikanth
Li, Gang
Liu, Ling
Luo, Feng
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
Molecular function is largely determined by structure. Accurately aligning molecular structure with natural language is therefore essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason about downstream chemical tasks. However, the substantial cost of human annotation makes it infeasible to construct large-scale, high-quality datasets of structure-grounded descriptions. In this work, we propose a fully automated annotation framework for generating precise molecular descriptions that preserve complete structural details at scale. Our approach builds upon and extends a rule-based chemical nomenclature parser to interpret IUPAC names and construct enriched, structural XML metadata that explicitly encodes molecular structure. This metadata is then used to guide LLMs in producing accurate natural-language descriptions. Using this framework, we curate a large-scale dataset of approximately $163$k molecule--description pairs. A rigorous validation protocol combining LLM-based and expert human evaluation on a subset of $2,000$ molecules demonstrates a high description precision of $98.6$%. The proposed annotation framework is readily beneficial to broader chemical tasks that rely on structural descriptions, with the resulting dataset providing a reliable foundation for molecule--language alignment. The source code and dataset are hosted at https://github.com/TheLuoFengLab/MolLangData and https://huggingface.co/datasets/ChemFM/MolLangData, respectively.
title A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02320