Natural language processing tools are data workflows created using software and machine learning models. These tools are used to extract structured, semantic information from English text, and have been used to create online chatbots and to quickly assess sentiment about a product or brand on social media platforms. Natural language processing and text mining tools have not been fully leveraged in the chemical sciences, and certainly not in the domain of coatings science and engineering. Here, we propose a rules-based and template-assisted framework for the semantic recording and delivery of coatings formulation information. This framework may be combined with text ...