AxCell: Automatic Extraction of Results from Machine Learning Papers
Marcin Kardas, Piotr Czapla, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Ruder, Sebastian Riedel, Ross Taylor, Robert Stojnic
Abstract
Tracking progress in machine learning has become increasingly difficult with the recent explosion in the number of papers. In this paper, we present AxCell, an automatic machine learning pipeline for extracting results from papers. AxCell uses several novel components, including a table segmentation subtask, to learn relevant structural knowledge that aids extraction. When compared with existing methods, our approach significantly improves the state of the art for results extraction. We also release a structured, annotated dataset for training models for results extraction, and a dataset for evaluating the performance of models on this task. Lastly, we show the viability of our approach enables it to be used for semi-automated results extraction in production, suggesting our improvements make this task practically viable for the first time. Code is available on GitHub.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.emnlp-main.692
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 8580–8594
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.692
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.692
- Cite (ACL):
- Marcin Kardas, Piotr Czapla, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Ruder, Sebastian Riedel, Ross Taylor, and Robert Stojnic. 2020. AxCell: Automatic Extraction of Results from Machine Learning Papers. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 8580–8594, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- AxCell: Automatic Extraction of Results from Machine Learning Papers (Kardas et al., EMNLP 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-05/2020.emnlp-main.692.pdf
- Code
- paperswithcode/axcell
- Data
- ArxivPapers, LinkedResults, PWC Leaderboards, SegmentedTables, SST-2