%0 Generic %1 crossland2021towards %A Crossland, Tom %A Stenetorp, Pontus %A Kawata, Daisuke %A Riedel, Sebastian %A Kitching, Thomas D. %A Deshpande, Anurag %A Kimpson, Tom %A Liew-Cain, Choong Ling %A Pedersen, Christian %A Piras, Davide %A Sharma, Monu %D 2021 %K library %T Towards Machine Learning-Based Meta-Studies: Applications to Cosmological Parameters %U http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00665 %X We develop a new model for automatic extraction of reported measurement values from the astrophysical literature, utilising modern Natural Language Processing techniques. We use this model to extract measurements present in the abstracts of the approximately 248,000 astrophysics articles from the arXiv repository, yielding a database containing over 231,000 astrophysical numerical measurements. Furthermore, we present an online interface (Numerical Atlas) to allow users to query and explore this database, based on parameter names and symbolic representations, and download the resulting datasets for their own research uses. To illustrate potential use cases we then collect values for nine different cosmological parameters using this tool. From these results we can clearly observe the historical trends in the reported values of these quantities over the past two decades, and see the impacts of landmark publications on our understanding of cosmology.

@misc{crossland2021towards, abstract = {We develop a new model for automatic extraction of reported measurement values from the astrophysical literature, utilising modern Natural Language Processing techniques. We use this model to extract measurements present in the abstracts of the approximately 248,000 astrophysics articles from the arXiv repository, yielding a database containing over 231,000 astrophysical numerical measurements. Furthermore, we present an online interface (Numerical Atlas) to allow users to query and explore this database, based on parameter names and symbolic representations, and download the resulting datasets for their own research uses. To illustrate potential use cases we then collect values for nine different cosmological parameters using this tool. From these results we can clearly observe the historical trends in the reported values of these quantities over the past two decades, and see the impacts of landmark publications on our understanding of cosmology.}, added-at = {2021-07-05T06:46:28.000+0200}, author = {Crossland, Tom and Stenetorp, Pontus and Kawata, Daisuke and Riedel, Sebastian and Kitching, Thomas D. and Deshpande, Anurag and Kimpson, Tom and Liew-Cain, Choong Ling and Pedersen, Christian and Piras, Davide and Sharma, Monu}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2dcbd18e7aed76ce04aa98aca15902fa3/gpkulkarni}, description = {Towards Machine Learning-Based Meta-Studies: Applications to Cosmological Parameters}, interhash = {fca8ff9d6d438058ba119db03d7dd24c}, intrahash = {dcbd18e7aed76ce04aa98aca15902fa3}, keywords = {library}, note = {cite arxiv:2107.00665Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomical measurement database available at http://numericalatlas.cs.ucl.ac.uk/}, timestamp = {2021-07-05T06:46:28.000+0200}, title = {Towards Machine Learning-Based Meta-Studies: Applications to Cosmological Parameters}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00665}, year = 2021 }