README.md

metadata

language:
  - en
  - fr
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - sentence-similarity
  - feature-extraction
tags:
  - ontology
  - semantic-alignment
  - food-science
  - plant-biology
  - bi-encoder
  - fine-tuning
  - sentence-transformers
  - TransformON
  - Plant-Ontology
  - CHEBI
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: sentence_id
      dtype: string
    - name: model_semantique_source
      dtype: string
    - name: source
      dtype: string
    - name: sentence
      dtype: string
    - name: positive_terms
      sequence:
        - name: term
          dtype: string
        - name: ontology_id
          dtype: string
        - name: note
          dtype: string
    - name: negative_terms
      sequence:
        - name: term
          dtype: string
        - name: ontology_id
          dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 14919
    - name: test
      num_examples: 100

OWS2 Dataset 1 — Semantic Alignment for Food Transformation & Plant Ontologies

Dataset Summary

ows2_dataset_1 is a curated dataset for training and evaluating Bi-Encoder models (e.g., all-MiniLM-L6-v2) on semantic ontology alignment in the food transformation and plant biology domains.

Each example pairs a scientific sentence with a set of positive ontology terms (relevant concepts) and, when available, negative terms (hard distractors). The dataset is designed to bring complex scientific sentences and domain-specific ontology terms into a shared semantic vector space.

Note — First iteration. This is v1 of the dataset. The volume of real annotated data remains intentionally limited at this stage, as the dataset is expected to grow iteratively through successive annotation campaigns and pipeline improvements.

The dataset covers concepts from several ontologies:

• TransformON (TFO) — Food transformation and processing ontology
• Plant Ontology (PO) — Plant anatomy and developmental stages
• Trait Ontology (TO) — Plant traits

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Splits

Split	Num. examples	Description
train	14 919	Training split — mix of LLM-generated and real sentences
test	100	Gold standard — manually validated sentence-term pairs

Real data volume. As a first iteration, real annotated examples represent only a small fraction of the train split (~491 out of 14 919). The proportion of real, expert-validated data is expected to increase in future versions as annotation campaigns progress.

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Data Structure

Each record is a JSON object with the following fields for real data :

{
  "sentence_id": "ABS_10.3390/antiox11010133_3",
  "model_semantique_source": "S-PubMedBert-MS-MARCO",
  "source": "10.3390/antiox11010133",
  "sentence": "The canonical reactive oxygen species (ROS)-scavenging mode ...",
  "positive_terms": [
    {"term": "antioxidants", "ontology_id": "TFO:tHfHTb"},
    {"term": "flavonoid", "ontology_id": "CHEBI:47916", "note": "Proposition manuelle sans ID d'ontologie"}
  ],
  "negative_terms": [
    {"term": "xanthophyll", "ontology_id": "TFO:2zpu01"}
  ]
}

and here an example of synthetic data :

{
  "sentence_id": "SYNTH_v0_9241",
  "model_semantique_source": "synthetic",
  "source": "synthetic",
  "sentence": "The experimental group consumed a diet enriched with dehulled oak seeds, demonstrating improved digestive efficiency.",
  "positive_terms": [
    {"term": "acorn, dehulled (feed)", "ontology_id": "TFO:TTN7SQ"}
  ],
  "negative_terms": []
}

Fields

Field	Type	Description
sentence_id	string	Unique identifier. Prefix ABS_ = real abstract sentence; SYNTH_v0_ = synthetic sentence
model_semantique_source	string	Model used for candidate term retrieval (S-PubMedBert-MS-MARCO, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, BioLORD-2023, synthetic)
source	string	DOI of origin article, or synthetic for generated sentences
sentence	string	Scientific sentence (input text)
positive_terms	list[dict]	Relevant ontology terms (anchors for similarity)
negative_terms	list[dict]	Irrelevant terms that were rejected (hard negatives)

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Train Split — Source Breakdown

Source type	Count
Synthetic (LLM-generated)	14 428
Real scientific abstracts (DOI-based)	491

A note on multiple positives and unfolding

Each sentence can carry one or more positive terms (positive_terms is a list). For training with pair-based losses such as MNRL, the recommended approach is to unfold the dataset: each (sentence, positive_term) pair becomes an independent training example. This increases the effective size of the training set and ensures each ontology term is explicitly associated with its sentence during optimization.

# Example unfolding
pairs = [
    (example["sentence"], term["term"])
    for example in dataset["train"]
    for term in example["positive_terms"]
]

A note on negatives

Synthetic examples (SYNTH_v0_*) — the vast majority of the train split — carry no explicit negative terms (negative_terms is an empty list). Hard negatives are only provided for manually annotated real examples.

To compensate for this absence during training, we rely on in-batch negatives: within each mini-batch, all positive terms from other examples act as implicit negatives for a given sentence. This strategy is made effective by using Multiple Negatives Ranking Loss (MNRL), which is the recommended loss function for this dataset. The unfolding strategy described above further enriches the batch diversity, making in-batch negatives more effective.

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Test Split — Gold Standard

The test split (dataset_goldtest.jsonl) contains 100 manually annotated examples drawn from real peer-reviewed scientific articles. Each sentence-term pair was validated by domain experts.

Articles covered include publications on:

• Apple polyphenols and cider chemistry
• Lentil texture and cooking behavior
• Wine oxidative stability
• Plant secondary metabolites and antioxidants

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Construction Pipeline

The dataset was built using the DatasetBuilder module of the OWS2 pipeline:

1. Abstract extraction — Scientific abstracts retrieved from PubMed/ISTEX
2. Candidate term retrieval — Top-k ontology terms retrieved via semantic similarity (Bi-Encoder)
3. Annotation — Manual validation and positive/negative labeling via the Check_Annotations Streamlit app
4. Synthetic enrichment — LLM-generated sentence-term pairs covering sparse ontology regions

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Intended Use

This dataset is intended for:

• Fine-tuning Bi-Encoder models (e.g., sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) primarily with Multiple Negatives Ranking Loss (MNRL), which leverages in-batch negatives to compensate for the low density of explicit hard negatives in synthetic examples
• Evaluating semantic alignment between scientific text and ontology terms (gold test split)
• Research on ontology-grounded sentence embeddings in food transformation and plant biology

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Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the OWS2 project:

@dataset{ows2_dataset_1,
  title        = {OWS2 Dataset 1 — Semantic Alignment for Food and Plant Ontologies},
  year         = {2026},
  license      = {CC BY 4.0},
}

Affiliation: This dataset was produced within the OWS² (Ontology-based Workflow for Semantic Specialisation) project, which was supported by INRAE Metaprogramme DIGIT-BIO within the framework of the SEED project, and was carried out within the Plateforme de Profilage Métabolique et de Métabolomique (P2M2) — UMR 1349 IGEPP, INRAE.

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License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.