Holle Meding<p>Tracing Chemical Knowledge Over Centuries with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> 🧪 </p><p>Diego Alves, Sergei Bagdasarov &amp; Badr M. Abdullah prompted models to generate structured metadata for 47k+ texts from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoyalSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalSociety</span></a> Corpus (1665–1996), enabling large-scale comparison of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> over time.</p><p>They tracked how chemical substances migrated between disciplines revealing a "chemicalization" of biology in the 19th century and a long-term trend toward standardization. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiachronicAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiachronicAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a></p>