# MatSciBERT
## A Materials Domain Language Model for Text Mining and Information Extraction

This is the pretrained model presented in [MatSciBERT: A materials domain language model for text mining and information extraction](https://rdcu.be/cMAp5), which is a BERT model trained on material science research papers.

The training corpus comprises papers related to the broad category of materials: alloys, glasses, metallic glasses, cement and concrete. We have utilised the abstracts and full text of papers(when available). All the research papers have been downloaded from [ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/) using the [Elsevier API](https://dev.elsevier.com/). The detailed methodology is given in the paper.

The codes for pretraining and finetuning on downstream tasks are shared on [GitHub](https://github.com/m3rg-repo/MatSciBERT).

If you find this useful in your research, please consider citing:
```
@article{gupta_matscibert_2022,
  title = {{{MatSciBERT}}: {{A}} Materials Domain Language Model for Text Mining and Information Extraction},
  author = {Gupta, Tanishq and Zaki, Mohd and Krishnan, N. M. Anoop and {Mausam}},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  journal = {npj Computational Materials},
  volume = {8},
  number = {1},
  pages = {102},
  issn = {2057-3960},
  doi = {10.1038/s41524-022-00784-w}
}
```