Analysis of mixed natural and symbolic language input in mathematical dialogs

  • Authors:
  • Magdalena Wolska;Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Discourse in formal domains, such as mathematics, is characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natural language and embedded (semi-)formal symbolic mathematical expressions. We present language phenomena observed in a corpus of dialogs with a simulated tutorial system for proving theorems as evidence for the need for deep syntactic and semantic analysis. We propose an approach to input understanding in this setting. Our goal is a uniform analysis of inputs of different degree of verbalization: ranging from symbolic alone to fully worded mathematical expressions.