About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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| Presentation Title |
XRDReader: Turning Published XRD Information into Machine-Readable Experimental Databases with Multimodal Agentic AI |
| Author(s) |
Afnan Mostafa, William Ratcliff , Simon Billinge, Niaz Abdolrahim |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Afnan Mostafa |
| Abstract Scope |
Scientific literature contains a massive, underused source of labeled experimental X-ray diffraction (XRD) data, but much of it remains locked in figures, captions, tables, and text, making reuse difficult for machine-learning-enabled materials characterization. We developed XRDReader, an automated multimodal agentic AI framework that transforms scattered publication data into validated, annotated, machine-readable records. The framework downloads and screens papers, identifies experimental XRD figures, extracts figure- and text-derived metadata, links each metadata value to its correct diffraction pattern, and validates outputs with an independent validation agent and deterministic checks. On a manually verified benchmark of 273 documents, XRDReader identified 296 of 303 true XRD figures and generated ~1200 metadata entries. XRD pattern digitization is currently being developed to further support automated XRD workflows. Broadly, XRDReader advances a literature-to-dataset concept, promoting automated multimodal data–metadata extraction and linking across scientific domains while minimizing the manual effort required to build large materials-science databases. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Machine Learning, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, |