SOJKA, Petr. Why TEX math search is more relevant now than ever? In TUG 2011, Trivandrum, Kerala, Indie. 2011. ISSN 0896-3207. Other formats:   BibTeX LaTeX RIS
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Original name Why TEX math search is more relevant now than ever?
Name in Czech Proč je vyhledávání TeXové matematiky relevantnější než kdy předtím?
Authors SOJKA, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition TUG 2011, Trivandrum, Kerala, Indie, 2011.
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Conference abstract
Field of Study 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW recorded presentation web of conference published abstract
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14330/11:00054134
Organization unit Faculty of Informatics
ISSN 0896-3207
Keywords (in Czech) vyhledávání matematiky;indexace matematických formulí; TeXovská notace matematických formulí
Keywords in English math search; indexing of math; TeX math notation
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D., učo 2378. Changed: 27. 2. 2012 11:24.
Abstract
TeX is around 30 years old, and was conceived and written before the advent of MathML, not to mention the Internet. At that time the idea of indexing and searching mathematics was just a futuristic idea. When people jumped on the Google bandwagon, it was predicted that old technologies such as TeX mark-up for math would disappear in time (it is not used for tokenization and indexing properly). The advent of the Internet and W3C brought mark-up and global search to the attention of the public. Somehow it was acceptable again. The recent move to the semantic search and MathML has brought renewed attention to the need of unambiguous canonical math representation in texts. As part of the project of building the European Digital Mathematics Library (http://www.eudml.eu) we have designed and implemented a math search engine, MIaS (http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/eudml/mias). It currently indexes and searches more than 160,000,000 formulae originally written by authors in TeX in their scientific papers. We will present the system and will discuss the ways towards a global math search engine based on the TeX math notation.
Abstract (in Czech)
TeXu je 30 let, a byl navržen a implementován před MathML, či Internetem. V té době byla myšlenka indexace a vyhledávání matematiky v oblasti futurologie. When people jumped on the Google bandwagon, it was predicted that old technologies such as TEX mark-up for math would disappear in time (it is not used for tokenization and indexing properly). The advent of the Internet and W3C brought mark-up and global search to the attention of the public. Somehow it was acceptable again. The recent move to the semantic search and MathML has brought renewed attention to the need of unambiguous canonical math representation in texts. As part of the project of building the European Digital Mathematics Library (http://www.eudml.eu) we have designed and implemented a math search engine, MIaS (http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/eudml/mias). It currently indexes and searches more than 160,000,000 formulae originally written by authors in TeX in their scientific papers. We will present the system and will discuss the ways towards a global math search engine based on the TeX math notation.