4 papers
AI-Assisted Extraction of Follow-up Observations from GCN Circulars in Astro-COLIBRI
Fabian Schüssler, S. Bisero, M. Cellier +6
We present a new Astro-COLIBRI component that converts free-text GCN Circulars into structured, event-linked follow-up records and combines them with structured reports submitted d…
Do Lexical and Contextual Coreference Resolution Systems Degrade Differently under Mention Noise? An Empirical Study on Scientific Software Mentions
Atilla Kaan Alkan, Felix Grezes, Jennifer Lynn Bartlett +3
We present our participation in the SOMD 2026 shared task on cross-document software mention coreference resolution, where our systems ranked second across all three subtasks. We c…
AstroConcepts: A Large-Scale Multi-Label Classification Corpus for Astrophysics
Atilla Kaan Alkan, Felix Grezes, Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma +5
Scientific multi-label text classification suffers from extreme class imbalance, where specialized terminology exhibits severe power-law distributions that challenge standard class…
A Survey on Hypothesis Generation for Scientific Discovery in the Era of Large Language Models
Atilla Kaan Alkan, Shashwat Sourav, Maja Jablonska +14
Hypothesis generation is a fundamental step in scientific discovery, yet it is increasingly challenged by information overload and disciplinary fragmentation. Recent advances in La…