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Definitions are the foundation for any scientific work, but with a significant increase in publication numbers, gathering definitions relevant to any keyword has become challenging. We therefore introduce SciDef, an LLM-based pipeline for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Filip Kučera , Christoph Mandl , Isao Echizen , Radu Timofte , Timo Spinde

The usage of mathematical formulas as concise representations of a document's key ideas is common practice. Correctly interpreting these formulas, by identifying mathematical symbols and extracting their descriptions, is an important task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Karol Lynch , Joern Ploennigs , Bradley Eck

Automatic definition extraction from texts is an important task that has numerous applications in several natural language processing fields such as summarization, analysis of scientific texts, automatic taxonomy generation, ontology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Natalia Vanetik , Marina Litvak , Sergey Shevchuk , Lior Reznik

Definition Extraction (DE) is one of the well-known topics in Information Extraction that aims to identify terms and their corresponding definitions in unstructured texts. This task can be formalized either as a sentence classification task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

The difficulties of automatic extraction of definitions and methods from scientific documents lie in two aspects: (1) the complexity and diversity of natural language texts, which requests an analysis method to support the discovery of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yutian Sun , Hai Zhuge

We propose the task of disambiguating symbolic expressions in informal STEM documents in the form of LaTeX files - that is, determining their precise semantics and abstract syntax tree - as a neural machine translation task. We discuss the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Dennis Müller , Cezary Kaliszyk

Advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred research into enhancing their reasoning capabilities, particularly in math-rich STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) documents. While LLMs can generate equations or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiaru Zou , Qing Wang , Pratyush Thakur , Nickvash Kani

Mathematical symbols and descriptions appear in various forms across document section boundaries without explicit markup. In this paper, we present a new large-scale dataset that emphasizes extracting symbols and descriptions in scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Viet Dac Lai , Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Solving math word problems requires deductive reasoning over the quantities in the text. Various recent research efforts mostly relied on sequence-to-sequence or sequence-to-tree models to generate mathematical expressions without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhanming Jie , Jierui Li , Wei Lu

Many data extraction tasks of practical relevance require not only syntactic pattern matching but also semantic reasoning about the content of the underlying text. While regular expressions are very well suited for tasks that require only…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Qiaochu Chen , Arko Banerjee , Çağatay Demiralp , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

The task of definition detection is important for scholarly papers, because papers often make use of technical terminology that may be unfamiliar to readers. Despite prior work on definition detection, current approaches are far from being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongyeop Kang , Andrew Head , Risham Sidhu , Kyle Lo , Daniel S. Weld , Marti A. Hearst

Idiomatic expressions have always been a bottleneck for language comprehension and natural language understanding, specifically for tasks like Machine Translation(MT). MT systems predominantly produce literal translations of idiomatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Prateek Saxena , Soma Paul

The task of Information Extraction (IE) involves automatically converting unstructured textual content into structured data. Most research in this field concentrates on extracting all facts or a specific set of relationships from documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Nicolas Gutehrlé , Iana Atanassova

Information Extraction (IE) from the tables present in scientific articles is challenging due to complicated tabular representations and complex embedded text. This paper presents TabLeX, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Harsh Desai , Pratik Kayal , Mayank Singh

Mathematical formulae represent complex semantic information in a concise form. Especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, mathematical formulae are crucial to communicate information, e.g., in scientific papers, and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Moritz Schubotz , Andre Greiner-Petter , Philipp Scharpf , Norman Meuschke , Howard Cohl , Bela Gipp

In this paper, we fine-tuned three pre-trained BERT models on the task of "definition extraction" from mathematical English written in LaTeX. This is presented as a binary classification problem, where either a sentence contains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Lucy Horowitz , Ryan Hathaway

Mathematical expressions (MEs) have complex two-dimensional structures in which symbols can be present at any nested depth like superscripts, subscripts, above, below etc. As MEs are represented using LaTeX format, several text retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pavan Kumar Perepu

We present an unsupervised approach for discovering semantic representations of mathematical equations. Equations are challenging to analyze because each is unique, or nearly unique. Our method, which we call equation embeddings, finds good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Kriste Krstovski , David M. Blei

In this paper, we present a new approach to the semantic enrichment of mathematical expression problem. Our approach is a combination of statistical machine translation and disambiguation which makes use of surrounding text of the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Minh-Quoc Nghiem , Giovanni Yoko Kristianto , Goran Topic , Akiko Aizawa

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is the process of identifying and extracting relations between entities that span multiple sentences within a document. Due to its realistic settings, DocRE has garnered increasing research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhichao Duan , Tengyu Pan , Zhenyu Li , Xiuxing Li , Jianyong Wang
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