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arxiv: 1906.09317 · v1 · pith:MVBCTSRSnew · submitted 2019-06-21 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

Identification of Tasks, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Numeric Scores for Scientific Leaderboards Construction

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keywords information extractionNLP leaderboardsscientific summarizationtask dataset metric scorenatural language processingautomatic evaluationresearch tracking
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The pith

A framework extracts tasks, datasets, metrics and scores from NLP papers to enable automatic leaderboard construction.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tackles the growing difficulty of tracking results across the expanding set of NLP tasks and datasets by building an automated extraction system. The authors created two dedicated datasets and introduced the TDMS-IE framework to pull out task-dataset-metric-score tuples directly from research papers. Experiments show the model beats several baselines by a large margin. If the approach holds, it would let the community maintain up-to-date leaderboards without relying solely on manual curation as publication volume increases.

Core claim

The authors build two datasets and develop a framework (TDMS-IE) aimed at automatically extracting task, dataset, metric and score from NLP papers, towards the automatic construction of leaderboards. Experiments show that their model outperforms several baselines by a large margin. Their model is a first step towards automatic leaderboard construction, e.g., in the NLP domain.

What carries the argument

TDMS-IE framework for extracting task-dataset-metric-score tuples from scientific papers.

Load-bearing premise

The two newly created datasets are representative enough of real NLP papers and the extracted tuples can be directly used to construct accurate leaderboards without substantial human verification.

What would settle it

Manual expert review of leaderboards built from the model's extractions on a fresh collection of NLP papers reveals frequent incorrect or incomplete task-dataset-metric-score tuples.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1906.09317 by Charles Jochim, Debasis Ganguly, Francesca Bonin, Martin Gleize, Yufang Hou.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An illustrative example of leaderboard construction from a sample article. The cue words related to the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Examples of document representation (DocTAET) and score context (SC) representation. Entails H: Named entity recognition, ACE 2005 (Test), Accuracy H: Entity linking, ACE 2005 (Test), Accuracy H: Coreference resolution, CoNLL 2012 (Test), Avg. F1 Document representation H: Dependency parsing, Penn Treebank, UAS H: … Hypothesis space: <Task, Dataset, Metric> triples from a taxonomy Score1: s1 context Hypoth… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: System architecture for TDMS-IE. score context suggests a DM pair. Finally, for each predicted TDM triple, we select the score whose context has the highest confidence in predicting a link to the constituent DM pair. 5 Experimental Setup 5.1 Training/Test Datasets We split NLP-TDMS (described in Section 3) into training and test sets. The partitioning ensures that every TDM triple annotated in NLP-TDMS ap￾… view at source ↗
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While the fast-paced inception of novel tasks and new datasets helps foster active research in a community towards interesting directions, keeping track of the abundance of research activity in different areas on different datasets is likely to become increasingly difficult. The community could greatly benefit from an automatic system able to summarize scientific results, e.g., in the form of a leaderboard. In this paper we build two datasets and develop a framework (TDMS-IE) aimed at automatically extracting task, dataset, metric and score from NLP papers, towards the automatic construction of leaderboards. Experiments show that our model outperforms several baselines by a large margin. Our model is a first step towards automatic leaderboard construction, e.g., in the NLP domain.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces two new datasets for extracting (task, dataset, metric, score) tuples from NLP papers and presents the TDMS-IE framework for this extraction task. Experiments on the author-created datasets show that TDMS-IE outperforms several baselines by a large margin, positioned as an initial step toward automatic scientific leaderboard construction.

Significance. If the extraction quality generalizes and the tuples prove sufficiently accurate for leaderboard use, the work could reduce manual effort in tracking NLP results. The current evaluation, however, provides no evidence that the reported gains support deployable leaderboards without substantial human correction.

major comments (3)
  1. [Dataset construction] Dataset construction: no inter-annotator agreement is reported for either of the two new datasets, leaving the reliability of the gold annotations used to train and evaluate TDMS-IE unquantified.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments: the evaluation contains no end-to-end test measuring how accurately the extracted tuples reconstruct leaderboards on held-out papers; the large-margin claim therefore does not yet demonstrate that downstream leaderboards would require only minimal manual verification.
  3. [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and Experiments: performance is reported exclusively on author-annotated data with no external validation set or papers using different result-reporting conventions, so it remains unclear whether the margin reflects genuine extraction robustness rather than annotation conventions specific to the authors.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would benefit from stating the sizes and annotation guidelines of the two datasets.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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Thank you for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below, indicating planned revisions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: Dataset construction: no inter-annotator agreement is reported for either of the two new datasets, leaving the reliability of the gold annotations used to train and evaluate TDMS-IE unquantified.

    Authors: We agree that inter-annotator agreement should be reported to quantify annotation reliability. We will add a second annotator for a subset of the papers, compute agreement metrics such as Cohen's kappa, and include these results in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Experiments: the evaluation contains no end-to-end test measuring how accurately the extracted tuples reconstruct leaderboards on held-out papers; the large-margin claim therefore does not yet demonstrate that downstream leaderboards would require only minimal manual verification.

    Authors: The paper explicitly frames TDMS-IE as an initial step and does not claim the results support fully deployable leaderboards without human oversight. The evaluation targets extraction accuracy. We will add a limitations discussion on the absence of end-to-end leaderboard reconstruction and note that such an evaluation would require further annotation effort beyond the current scope. revision: partial

  3. Referee: Abstract and Experiments: performance is reported exclusively on author-annotated data with no external validation set or papers using different result-reporting conventions, so it remains unclear whether the margin reflects genuine extraction robustness rather than annotation conventions specific to the authors.

    Authors: The datasets follow a documented annotation protocol, and evaluation uses held-out papers from the same collection. External validation on independently created data is not available for these new resources. We will revise the abstract and add a limitations section clarifying the evaluation scope and the potential influence of annotation conventions. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity in derivation chain or experimental claims

full rationale

The paper describes construction of two author-annotated datasets and development of an information extraction model (TDMS-IE) that is evaluated against baselines on those datasets. No equations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, self-citation load-bearing arguments, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are present. The central performance claim rests on standard supervised evaluation rather than any reduction to self-defined inputs by construction. The work is a self-contained applied extraction task with independent model and annotation content.

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Abstract-only; no mathematical derivations, free parameters, or invented entities are mentioned. The work relies on standard supervised learning assumptions for information extraction.

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