MathAlign: Linking Formula Identifiers to their Contextual Natural Language Descriptions

Maria Alexeeva, Rebecca Sharp, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Jennifer Kadowaki, Adarsh Pyarelal, Clayton Morrison


Abstract
Extending machine reading approaches to extract mathematical concepts and their descriptions is useful for a variety of tasks, ranging from mathematical information retrieval to increasing accessibility of scientific documents for the visually impaired. This entails segmenting mathematical formulae into identifiers and linking them to their natural language descriptions. We propose a rule-based approach for this task, which extracts LaTeX representations of formula identifiers and links them to their in-text descriptions, given only the original PDF and the location of the formula of interest. We also present a novel evaluation dataset for this task, as well as the tool used to create it.
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2020.lrec-1.269
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
2204–2212
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.269
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Maria Alexeeva, Rebecca Sharp, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Jennifer Kadowaki, Adarsh Pyarelal, and Clayton Morrison. 2020. MathAlign: Linking Formula Identifiers to their Contextual Natural Language Descriptions. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2204–2212, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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MathAlign: Linking Formula Identifiers to their Contextual Natural Language Descriptions (Alexeeva et al., LREC 2020)
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