Semantic Enrichment of the Quantum Cascade Laser Properties in Text- A Knowledge Graph Generation Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel method to extract Quantum Cascade Laser properties from scientific text and generate a semantic knowledge graph using ontologies and GPT-4, enabling better analysis of design-performance relationships.

Contribution

It introduces an approach combining QCL ontologies and GPT-4 for automated extraction and semantic enrichment of QCL properties from unstructured text.

Findings

Effective extraction of QCL properties from scientific literature.

Successful generation of a comprehensive QCL knowledge graph.

Demonstrated potential for advanced analysis of laser data.

Abstract

A well structured collection of the various Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) design and working properties data provides a platform to analyze and understand the relationships between these properties. By analyzing these relationships, we can gain insights into how different design features impact laser performance properties such as the working temperature. Most of these QCL properties are captured in scientific text. There is therefore need for efficient methodologies that can be utilized to extract QCL properties from text and generate a semantically enriched and interlinked platform where the properties can be analyzed to uncover hidden relations. There is also the need to maintain provenance and reference information on which these properties are based. Semantic Web technologies such as Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs have proven capability in providing interlinked data platforms for knowledge representation in various domains. In this paper, we propose an approach for generating a QCL properties Knowledge Graph (KG) from text for semantic enrichment of the properties. The approach is based on the QCL ontology and a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enabled information extraction pipeline based on GPT 4-Turbo language model. The properties of interest include: working temperature, laser design type, lasing frequency, laser optical power and the heterostructure. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this approach for efficiently extracting QCL properties from unstructured text and generating a QCL properties Knowledge Graph, which has potential applications in semantic enrichment and analysis of QCL data.