amc: The Automated Mission Classifier for Telescope Bibliographies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11202v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:24:42 GMT
• Title: amc: The Automated Mission Classifier for Telescope Bibliographies
• Authors: John F. Wu, Joshua E. G. Peek, Sophie J. Miller, Jenny Novacescu, Achu J. Usha, Christopher A. Wilkinson,
• Abstract summary: A modified version of amc performs well on the TRACS Kaggle challenge.<n>Amc can also be used to interrogate historical datasets and surface potential label errors.
• Score: 0.10262304700896198
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Telescope bibliographies record the pulse of astronomy research by capturing publication statistics and citation metrics for telescope facilities. Robust and scalable bibliographies ensure that we can measure the scientific impact of our facilities and archives. However, the growing rate of publications threatens to outpace our ability to manually label astronomical literature. We therefore present the Automated Mission Classifier (amc), a tool that uses large language models (LLMs) to identify and categorize telescope references by processing large quantities of paper text. A modified version of amc performs well on the TRACS Kaggle challenge, achieving a macro $F_1$ score of 0.84 on the held-out test set. amc is valuable for other telescopes beyond TRACS; we developed the initial software for identifying papers that featured scientific results by NASA missions. Additionally, we investigate how amc can also be used to interrogate historical datasets and surface potential label errors. Our work demonstrates that LLM-based applications offer powerful and scalable assistance for library sciences.

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