---
license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
  - multilingual
tags:
  - abstract-detection
  - scientific-text
  - quality-filtering
  - pubverse
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
---

# Abstract Archon Training Data

Binary classification dataset for detecting whether a text is a real scientific research abstract or non-abstract content (figure captions, supplementary material references, author bylines, journal metadata, HTML artifacts, taxonomy stubs).

## Dataset Details

- **Positive examples (label=1)**: 2,000 real abstracts randomly sampled from a 198M publication database (publications not flagged by any quality filter, length >= 200 characters)
- **Negative examples (label=0)**: ~2,000 non-abstract texts from various garbage categories:
  - `figure_table_caption`: Figure and table captions misidentified as abstracts
  - `journal_article_scrape`: Scraped article metadata (titles, access info, author lists)
  - `html_heavy_text`: Content with substantial HTML markup
  - `author_byline`: Author affiliations and bylines
  - `moesm_title`: Electronic supplementary material descriptions
  - `supplementary_content`: Supplementary material references
  - `taxonomy_stub`: Taxonomic database stubs

## Format

NDJSON with fields:
- `text`: First 500 characters of the abstract field
- `label`: 1 (real abstract) or 0 (garbage/non-abstract)
- `source`: Category label (e.g., `positive_real_abstract`, `negative_figure_table_caption`)
- `source_id`: OpenAlex-style source identifier

## Data Curation

Negatives were manually curated to remove misclassified entries. The `html_heavy` category was entirely removed after review showed nearly all entries were real abstracts with minor HTML entity artifacts. The `supplementary_content` category was filtered to retain only entries that begin with supplementary material indicators (e.g., "Figure S1", "Additional file", "Supplementary dataset").

## Intended Use

Training a lightweight binary classifier (Potion-32M embeddings + LogisticRegression) as a quality gate for large-scale scientific publication databases. The classifier identifies non-abstract text that has been incorrectly stored in abstract fields.

## Source

Sampled from a PostgreSQL database of ~198M publications aggregated from OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. Part of the [PubVerse](https://github.com/jimnoneill/pubverse) project.