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SemEval 2017 Task 10: ScienceIE - Extracting Keyphrases and Relations from Scientific Publicationscs.CL
We describe the SemEval task of extracting keyphrases and relations between them from scientific documents, which is crucial for understanding which publications describe which processes, tasks and materials. Although this was a new task, we had a total of 26 submissions across 3 evaluation scenarios. We expect the tas…
SentiCite analyzes citations for sentiment and nature, improving on existing methods.
problem Identifying quality scientific work amidst many citations.
method Sentiment analysis of citations with motivation detection.
result SentiCite outperforms state-of-the-art methods with a F1-measure of 0.71.
Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and none for the traditionally popular domain of scientific publications, which opens …
Author name disambiguation in bibliographic databases is the problem of grouping together scientific publications written by the same person, accounting for potential homonyms and/or synonyms. Among solutions to this problem, digital libraries are increasingly offering tools for authors to manually curate their publica…
Quantum computing promises new financial modeling.
problem Traditional financial modeling limitations.
method Overview of quantum computing applications in finance.
result Quantum computing can enhance financial modeling.
Blockchain technology, and more specifically Bitcoin (one of its foremost applications), have been receiving increasing attention in the scientific community. The first publications with Bitcoin as a topic, can be traced back to 2012. In spite of this short time span, the production magnitude (1162 papers) makes it nec…
Researchers often summarize their work in the form of posters. Posters provide a coherent and efficient way to convey core ideas from scientific papers. Generating a good scientific poster, however, is a complex and time consuming cognitive task, since such posters need to be readable, informative, and visually aesthet…
New approach uses interpolation models and error bounds for verifiable scientific machine learning.
problem Challenges in verifying and validating modern scientific machine learning workflows.
method Combines multiple standard interpolation techniques with error bounds for efficient computation and comparative performance analysis.
result Error bounds for interpolation techniques can be computed or estimated efficiently, aiding in validation goals.
Paper develops an attention mechanism for long-term scientific impact prediction.
problem Predicting the long-term impact of scientific papers based on citation records.
method Develops an attention mechanism to predict long-term scientific impact.
result Emphasizing the limited attention can better stand on the shoulders of giants.
Improved object detection for scientific document images.
problem Current object detectors fail to accurately localize regions in scientific document images.
method Revised R-CNN model with region embedding for fine-grained proposals.
result 17% mAP improvement over standard object detection models.
A new method validates generative models in high-dimensional data.
problem Scalability and interpretability issues in validating generative models.
method Learning-based goodness-of-fit testing inspired by Neyman--Pearson construction.
result The NPLM can effectively validate generative models in high-dimensional data.
The evolving of Data Science and the Saudi Arabia case. How much have we changed in 13 years?stat.AP
This study analyzes data science vocabulary changes over 13 years.
problem Understanding evolution of data science terms over time.
method Exploratory Data Analysis, Latent Semantic Analysis, Latent Dirichlet Analysis, N-grams Analysis.
result Identified new vocabulary and its incorporation into scientific literature.
This paper reviews statistical and machine learning methods for anti-money laundering.
problem Lack of scientific literature on statistical and machine learning methods for anti-money laundering.
method Client risk profiling and suspicious behavior flagging.
result Client risk profiling involves diagnostics, while suspicious behavior flagging involves non-disclosed features and hand-crafted risk indices.
The machine learning community adopted the use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in order to ensure the statistical validity of results. Many scientific fields however realized the shortcomings of frequentist reasoning and in the most radical cases even banned its use in publications. We should do the same…
NeuroQuery synthesizes brain mapping evidence across diverse concepts.
problem Lack of comprehensive meta-analysis of human brain mapping across different mental processes and mechanisms.
method A multivariate model that predicts the spatial distribution of neurological observations given text describing an experiment, cognitive process, or disease.
result Captures relationships and neural correlates of 7,547 neuroscience terms across 13,459 neuroimaging publications.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Detection of breast cancer, while it is still small and confined to the breast, provides the best chance of effective treatment. Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems that detect cancer from mammograms will help in …
Autonomous driving is getting a lot of attention in the last decade and will be the hot topic at least until the first successful certification of a car with Level 5 autonomy. There are many public datasets in the academic community. However, they are far away from what a robust industrial production system needs. Ther…
Predicting Financial Market Trends using Time Series Analysis and Natural Language Processingq-fin.ST
Study shows Twitter sentiments predict stock price fluctuations.
problem Predicting stock prices using public opinions.
method Time series analysis and natural language processing with LSTM model.
result Positive, negative, and subjective sentiments correlate with stock price changes.
Teaching reproducible research for medical students and postgraduate pharmaceutical scientistsstat.ML
Teaches reproducible research to medical students and postgrads.
problem Lack of reproducibility in medical research practices.
method Designed and delivered a lecture series on reproducible research.
result Encountered practical obstacles in reproducing a published analysis.
New benchmarks show LLMs struggle with causal discovery.
problem Leveraging LLMs for causal discovery is unreliable due to dataset leakage.
method Developing science-grounded benchmarks and hybrid methods combining LLM predictions with statistical analysis.
result LLMs perform poorly on novel, real-world scientific studies compared to classical methods.
Deployment-complete benchmarking assesses if evidence leads to consistent deployment actions.
problem Lack of clear evidence leading to consistent deployment actions.
method Introduces deployment-complete benchmarking to test if benchmark evidence determines deployment actions.
result Benchmark evidence must be complete for a claim to lead to a consistent deployment action.
MIMII Dataset: Sound Dataset for Malfunctioning Industrial Machine Investigation and Inspectioncs.SD
New dataset for industrial machine sounds to aid maintenance.
problem Lack of public datasets for industrial machine sounds.
method Recorded normal and anomalous sounds of industrial machines.
result Assists in automated facility maintenance development.
Extracts roles of authors from biomedical papers.
problem Lack of machine-readable author roles in biomedical papers.
method Statistical analysis of roles, Open Information Extraction, Naïve Bayes approach.
result Extracts roles with precision of 0.68, recall of 0.48, and F1 of 0.57.
Scientific discovery is limited by hypothesis redundancy, and hybrid methods can exploit non-local exploration.
problem Limitation of scientific discovery due to hypothesis redundancy.
method Hybrid discovery systems combining structured local search with LLM-generated non-local proposals.
result Hybrid methods can exploit non-local exploration when three geometric conditions co-occur.
Algorithms learned from data are increasingly used for deciding many aspects in our life: from movies we see, to prices we pay, or medicine we get. Yet there is growing evidence that decision making by inappropriately trained algorithms may unintentionally discriminate people. For example, in automated matching of cand…
Synthetic data can be used to ask more questions and accelerate discovery with provable validity guarantees.
problem Valid inference with synthetic data
method Task exchangeability
result Provable validity guarantees for synthetic data inference
Forbidden knowledge in machine learning -- Reflections on the limits of research and publicationcs.LG
Paper discusses ethical norms for machine learning to prevent misuse.
problem Harmful misuse of machine learning applications.
method Proposes review parameters for ethical framework.
result Ethical guidelines for sharing sensitive machine learning information.
Peer review is the foundation of scientific publication, and the task of reviewing has long been seen as a cornerstone of professional service. However, the massive growth in the field of machine learning has put this community benefit under stress, threatening both the sustainability of an effective review process and…
Back cover text: Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multibillion-dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and b…
Theory of Zipf's Law and of General Power Law Distributions with Gibrat's law of Proportional Growthq-fin.GN
We summarize a book under publication with his title written by the three present authors, on the theory of Zipf's law, and more generally of power laws, driven by the mechanism of proportional growth. The preprint is available upon request from the authors. For clarity, consistence of language and conciseness, we disc…
This chapter introduces reproducibility in machine learning for medical imaging.
problem Lack of reproducibility in machine learning for medical imaging.
method Distinguishes and defines types of reproducibility, outlines requirements, and discusses utility.
result Discussion on benefits and a plea for a non-dogmatic approach to reproducibility.
Accurate real time crime prediction is a fundamental issue for public safety, but remains a challenging problem for the scientific community. Crime occurrences depend on many complex factors. Compared to many predictable events, crime is sparse. At different spatio-temporal scales, crime distributions display dramatica…
Benchmarking recursive collapse claims with a new framework under false-positive control.
problem Evaluating recursive systems for failure patterns and warning claims.
method Developed Loopzero framework for testing recursive failures, specified claim boundaries in Lean, evaluated under FP constraint, and compared with standard detectors.
result No standard detectors or Loopzero's pre-registered quantile detector achieved the required operating point under the false-positive contract.
Multilingual Topic Modelsstat.ML
Scientific publications have evolved several features for mitigating vocabulary mismatch when indexing, retrieving, and computing similarity between articles. These mitigation strategies range from simply focusing on high-value article sections, such as titles and abstracts, to assigning keywords, often from controlled…
While all kinds of mixed data -from personal data, over panel and scientific data, to public and commercial data- are collected and stored, building probabilistic graphical models for these hybrid domains becomes more difficult. Users spend significant amounts of time in identifying the parametric form of the random va…
Exploring Generative Physics Models with Scientific Priors in Inertial Confinement Fusionphysics.comp-ph
This work uses scientific constraints to validate neural network predictions in fusion physics.
problem Verifying the scientific plausibility of neural network predictions in fusion physics.
method Using known scientific constraints as a validation tool.
result Validated neural network predictions in fusion physics using scientific constraints.
In recent years, real estate industry has captured government and public attention around the world. The factors influencing the prices of real estate are diversified and complex. However, due to the limitations and one-sidedness of their respective views, they did not provide enough theoretical basis for the fluctuati…
Hypothesis testing is one of the most common types of data analysis and forms the backbone of scientific research in many disciplines. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) in particular is used to detect dependence between a categorical and a numerical variable. Here we show how one can carry out this hypothesis test under the…
From Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash: a network analysisphysics.soc-ph
Bitcoins and Blockchain technologies are attracting the attention of different scientific communities. In addition, their widespread industrial applications and the continuous introduction of cryptocurrencies are also stimulating the attention of the public opinion. The underlying structure of these technologies consti…
Extracts StarCraft II tournament data for AI and ML studies.
problem Lack of accessible esports data for scientific use.
method Gathered and processed StarCraft II tournament replays using an API parser library.
result The largest publicly available StarCraft II esports dataset.
xVal tokenizes numbers continuously for better scientific model training.
problem Lack of continuous numerical tokenization for scientific datasets in LLMs.
method xVal: Continuous numerical tokenization strategy.
result xVal outperforms other numerical tokenization methods on scientific datasets.
Galactica learns from scientific literature to help researchers.
problem Information overload in scientific literature makes it hard to find useful insights.
method Trained on a large corpus of scientific papers, reference material, and knowledge bases.
result Outperforms existing models on various scientific tasks, including LaTeX equations and mathematical reasoning.
We present a Bayesian non-negative tensor factorization model for count-valued tensor data, and develop scalable inference algorithms (both batch and online) for dealing with massive tensors. Our generative model can handle overdispersed counts as well as infer the rank of the decomposition. Moreover, leveraging a repa…
Data science models, although successful in a number of commercial domains, have had limited applicability in scientific problems involving complex physical phenomena. Theory-guided data science (TGDS) is an emerging paradigm that aims to leverage the wealth of scientific knowledge for improving the effectiveness of da…
The paper explores learning with a mix of private and public data while maintaining privacy.
problem Learning with a mix of private and public data while ensuring differential privacy.
method Designing a learning algorithm that satisfies differential privacy only with respect to private examples.
result A hypothesis class of VC-dimension d can be agnostically learned up to an excess error of α using only (roughly) d/α public examples and d/α^2 private labeled examples.
Social media enhances or diminishes scientific status, depending on usage.
problem Impact of social media on scientific stratification and mobility.
method Logistic Attribution Analysis combining statistical and machine learning methods.
result Social media promotes stratification and mobility, but beyond a threshold, it negatively impacts status.
We present a non-naive version of the Precautionary (PP) that allows us to avoid paranoia and paralysis by confining precaution to specific domains and problems. PP is intended to deal with uncertainty and risk in cases where the absence of evidence and the incompleteness of scientific knowledge carries profound implic…