MIR 2012 workshop

SOJKA, Petr and Michael KOHLHASE. MIR 2012 workshop. 2012.

Basic information

• Original name: MIR 2012 workshop
• Name in Czech: MIR 2012 workshop
• Authors: SOJKA, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michael KOHLHASE (276 Germany).
• Edition: 2012.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Organization of a conference
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: workshop homepage workshop programme
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/12:00062376
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Keywords (in Czech): vyhledávání matematiky;vyhledávání matematických formulí;matematická knihovna;digitální knihovna;TeX;digitalizační nástroje;OCR;OCR matematiky;OAI-PMH
• Keywords in English: mathematics retrieval; math information retrieval;digital mathematics library;digital library;TeX;digitization tools;MIR
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Workshop was organized as part of CICM multiconference. It had two parts: MIR symposium and MIR happening. The Math IR Symposium is a traditional-style workshop with scientific contributions about mathematics information retrieval. Topics include but not limited to: MIR systems design and descriptions * requirements for mathematics information retrieval: use cases and typical queries * formula normalization, similarity, indexing and search algorithms * mathematics retrieval corpora preparation and tagging * semantically enhancing mathematical corpora for IR (from math OCR or presentation MathML in DML) * extracting semantic relations from corpora. * evaluation of MIR (methods and test corpora). The MIR 2012 workshop featured a friendly competition for the systems presented at the workshop. Since math information retrieval is still quite young and developing, we will not make this an official competition, but a happening, where we get together and test our system on a common set of problems. We expect the happening to transcend the workshop proper. The aim of the MIR happening was jointly gain a better understanding into the information retrieval needs of mathematicians and the respective strengths and weaknesses of the respective IR approaches and systems. As a tangible result of the happening the organizers will compile a survey paper and report of this newly-gained understanding. In particular, it was not an aim of the MIR happening to determine "winners" of the competition in any form. That may be an aim of a subsequent competition, when we have a better grip on the problems and possible evaluation approaches.

Links

• LA09016, research and development project: Name: Účast ČR v European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) (Acronym: ERCIM)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Czech Republic membership in the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

• 250503, interní kód MU: Name: The European Digital Mathematics Library (Acronym: EuDML)

Investor: European Union