Systems and methods to extract the context of scientific measurements using targeted question answering

A system comprising:

• a processing device;
• and
• a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium comprising one or more programming instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processing device to:
• receive an electronic document;
• identify a numerical value in the document;
• extract the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text;
• input the extracted text into a trained neural network to create a vector representation of the extracted text;
• generate a series of questions associated with the extracted text;
• generate answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text;
• determine a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the series of questions;
• and
• store the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.