Automatic Extraction of Structured Mineral Drillhole Results from Unstructured Mining Company Reports

Adam Dimeski, Afshin Rahimi


Abstract
Aggregate mining exploration results can help companies and governments to optimise and police mining permits and operations, a necessity for transition to a renewable energy future, however, these results are buried in unstructured text. We present a novel dataset from 23 Australian mining company reports, framing the extraction of structured drillhole information as a sequence labelling task. Our two benchmark models based on Bi-LSTM-CRF and BERT, show their effectiveness in this task with a F1 score of 77% and 87%, respectively. Our dataset and benchmarks are accessible online.
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2022.wnut-1.16
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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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WNUT
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147–153
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Adam Dimeski and Afshin Rahimi. 2022. Automatic Extraction of Structured Mineral Drillhole Results from Unstructured Mining Company Reports. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022), pages 147–153, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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