Hi everybody,

This is a friendly reminder of our monthly webinar tomorrow, *Sept 6th, *at 12 PM CT for our monthly webinar. We will have* Harry Caufield https://github.com/caufieldjh,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, talking about how *SPIRES* implements Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract structured knowledge in agricultural science and beyond.

I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to attend the webinar.

I hope you will join us.

Best,

Annarita

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Presenters: Harry Caufield https://github.com/caufieldjh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Abstract:

*Staying grounded: assembling structured biological knowledge with help from large language models*

Developing comprehensive knowledge bases and ontologies demands meticulous curation. The emergence of highly flexible, artificial intelligence-driven approaches to natural language processing offers novel ways to expedite this process. Current methods often rely on extensive training data, however, and struggle with complex, nested knowledge structures. In this talk, I will describe a new approach, Structured Prompt Interrogation and Recursive Extraction of Semantics (SPIRES). This method for information extraction leverages the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform zero-shot learning (ZSL) with a variety of natural-language prompts. SPIRES operates with predefined data schemas, enabling information extraction that adheres to these structures. It also grounds concepts with well-established ontologies and vocabularies, avoiding the "hallucinations" common to text generated by LLMs.

Within OntoGPT, an LLM-querying framework we have developed, SPIRES supports rapid application to summarization and modeling across plant science and biology. Notably, this approach allows customization for new tasks and topics without a need for new training data. We have found that OntoGPT and SPIRES are capable of extracting structured knowledge from large literature collections and constructing knowledge graphs from the resulting relationships. Through harnessing the language comprehension capabilities of LLMs, SPIRES streamlines knowledge acquisition from across agricultural science and beyond.

*| 1P ET | 12P CT | 11A MT | 10A PT |*

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