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Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text

Computation and Language 2022-08-31 v1

Abstract

We investigate different systems for extracting mathematical entities from English texts in the mathematical field of category theory as a first step for constructing a mathematical knowledge graph. We consider four different term extractors and compare their results. This small experiment showcases some of the issues with the construction and evaluation of terms extracted from noisy domain text. We also make available two open corpora in research mathematics, in particular in category theory: a small corpus of 755 abstracts from the journal TAC (3188 sentences), and a larger corpus from the nLab community wiki (15,000 sentences).

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@article{arxiv.2208.13830,
  title  = {Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text},
  author = {Jacob Collard and Valeria de Paiva and Brendan Fong and Eswaran Subrahmanian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.13830},
  year   = {2022}
}
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