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We present a search engine for mathematical formulae. The MathWebSearch system harvests the web for content representations (currently MathML and OpenMath) of formulae and indexes them with substitution tree indexing, a technique originally developed for accessing intermediate results in automated theorem provers. For querying, we present a generic language extension approach that allows constructing queries by minimally annotating existing representations. First experiments show that this architecture results in a scalable application.
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Kohlhase, M., Sucan, I. (2006). A Search Engine for Mathematical Formulae. In: Calmet, J., Ida, T., Wang, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation. AISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11856290_21
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