---
pretty_name: Scientific Figures, Captions and Context
task_categories:
- visual-question-answering
- document-question-answering
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
configs:
  - config_name: Data
    data_files: merged.json
---
# Dataset Card for Scientific Figures, Captions, and Context
A novel vision-language dataset of scientific figures taken directly from research papers.
We scraped approximately ~150k papers, with about ~690k figures total. We extracted each figure's caption and label from the paper. In addition, we searched through each paper to find references of each figure and included the surrounding text as 'context' for this figure.

All figures were taken from arXiv research papers.
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  <img width="500" src="example1.png">
  <figcaption>Figure 5: Comparisons between our multifidelity learning paradigm and single low-fidelity (all GPT-3.5) annotation on four domain-specific tasks given the same total 1000 annotation budget. Note that the samples for all GPT-3.5 are drawn based on the uncertainty score.</figcaption>
</figure>

<figure>
  <img width="500" src="example2.png">
  <figcaption>Figure 3: Problem representation visualization by T- SNE. Our model with A&D improves the problem rep- resentation learning, which groups analogical problems close and separates non-analogical problems.</figurecaption>
</figure>

### Usage
The `merged.json` file is a mapping between the figure's filename as stored in the repository and its caption, label, and context.
To use, you must extract the parts located under dataset/figures/ and keep the raw images in the same directory so that they match the image_filename fields.
The images are named in the format ```<paper id>-<figure name>``` where paper id is the id given by arXiv and figure name is the name of the figure as given in the raw format of each paper. 

# Contributors
Yousef Gomaa (@yousefg-codes) and Mohamed Awadalla (@mawadalla)

## Dataset Description

- **Paper:** coming soon

### Dataset Summary

This dataset includes ~690,000 figures from ~150,000 scientific papers taken from arXiv papers. Each object in the json file is a single research paper with a list of figures each with their caption and surrounding context.

| Category   |   Count |
|:-----------|--------:|
| Figure     |  690883 |
| Paper      |  152504 |

### Data Instances

An example of an object in the `merged.json` file:

```json
{
  [
    {
      'image_filename': 'dataset/figures/example.png' (or .eps or .pdf or other type),
      'label': 'fig_example',
      'caption': 'an example caption for this figure',
      'context': ['example context where this figure was referenced', 'up to 600 characters']
    },
  ...
  ]
}
```

## Dataset Creation
We utilized the bulk access of arXiv's papers.

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

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## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

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### Citation Information
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