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Classification of geological borehole descriptions using a domain adapted large language model

Geological borehole descriptions contain detailed textual information about the composition of the subsurface. However, their unstructured format presents significant challenges for extracting relevant features into a structured format. This paper introduces GEOBERTje: a domain adapted large language model trained on geological borehole descriptions from Flanders (Belgium) in the Dutch language. This model effectively extracts relevant information from the borehole descriptions and represents it into a numeric vector space. Showcasing just one potential application of GEOBERTje, we finetune a classifier model on a limited number of manually labeled observations. This classifier categorizes borehole descriptions into a main, second and third lithology class. We show that our classifier outperforms a rule-based approach (by 30% on average), non-contextual Word2Vec embeddings combined with a random forest classifier (by 38% on average), and a prompt engineering method with large language models (i.e., GPT-4 (by 11% on average) and Gemma 2 (by 28% on average)). This study exemplifies how domain adapted large language models enhance the efficiency and accuracy of extracting information from complex, unstructured geological descriptions. This offers new opportunities for geological analysis and modeling using vast amounts of data.

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Series Title
Applied Computing and Geoscience - Open Access
Call Number
551.136
Publisher
Amsterdam : Elsevier.,
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15 hlm PDF, 2.295 KB
Language
Inggris
ISBN/ISSN
2590-1974
Classification
551.136
Content Type
text
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Carrier Type
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Edition
Vol.25, February 2025
Subject(s)
Classification
Natural language processing
Borehole description
Large language model
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  • Classification of geological borehole descriptions using a domain adapted large language model
    Geological borehole descriptions contain detailed textual information about the composition of the subsurface. However, their unstructured format presents significant challenges for extracting relevant features into a structured format. This paper introduces GEOBERTje: a domain adapted large language model trained on geological borehole descriptions from Flanders (Belgium) in the Dutch language. This model effectively extracts relevant information from the borehole descriptions and represents it into a numeric vector space. Showcasing just one potential application of GEOBERTje, we finetune a classifier model on a limited number of manually labeled observations. This classifier categorizes borehole descriptions into a main, second and third lithology class. We show that our classifier outperforms a rule-based approach (by 30% on average), non-contextual Word2Vec embeddings combined with a random forest classifier (by 38% on average), and a prompt engineering method with large language models (i.e., GPT-4 (by 11% on average) and Gemma 2 (by 28% on average)). This study exemplifies how domain adapted large language models enhance the efficiency and accuracy of extracting information from complex, unstructured geological descriptions. This offers new opportunities for geological analysis and modeling using vast amounts of data.
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