Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Brendan Fong, Eswaran Subrahmanian


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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2022.wnut-1.2
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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15–23
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Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Brendan Fong, and Eswaran Subrahmanian. 2022. Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022), pages 15–23, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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