A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02320v2
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:28:30 GMT
• Title: A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method
• Abstract summary: We propose a fully automated annotation framework for generating precise molecular structure descriptions at scale.<n>Our approach builds upon a rule-based chemical nomenclature to interpret IUPAC names and construct enriched, structured XML metadata that explicitly encodes molecular structure.<n>Using this framework, we curate a large-scale dataset of approximately $163$k molecule-description pairs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Molecular function is largely determined by structure. Accurately aligning molecular structure with natural language is therefore essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason about downstream chemical tasks. However, the substantial cost of human annotation makes it infeasible to construct large-scale, high-quality datasets of structure-grounded descriptions. In this work, we propose a fully automated annotation framework for generating precise molecular structure descriptions at scale. Our approach builds upon and extends a rule-based chemical nomenclature parser to interpret IUPAC names and construct enriched, structured XML metadata that explicitly encodes molecular structure. This metadata is then used to guide LLMs in producing accurate natural-language descriptions. Using this framework, we curate a large-scale dataset of approximately $163$k molecule-description pairs. A rigorous validation protocol combining LLM-based and expert human evaluation on a subset of $2,000$ molecules demonstrates a high description precision of $98.6\%$. The resulting dataset provides a reliable foundation for future molecule-language alignment, and the proposed annotation method is readily extensible to larger datasets and broader chemical tasks that rely on structural descriptions.

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