Neural Machine Translation for Mathematical Formulae
Felix Petersen, Moritz Schubotz, Andre Greiner-Petter, Bela Gipp
Abstract
We tackle the problem of neural machine translation of mathematical formulae between ambiguous presentation languages and unambiguous content languages. Compared to neural machine translation on natural language, mathematical formulae have a much smaller vocabulary and much longer sequences of symbols, while their translation requires extreme precision to satisfy mathematical information needs. In this work, we perform the tasks of translating from LaTeX to Mathematica as well as from LaTeX to semantic LaTeX. While recurrent, recursive, and transformer networks struggle with preserving all contained information, we find that convolutional sequence-to-sequence networks achieve 95.1% and 90.7% exact matches, respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.acl-long.645
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11534–11550
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.645
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.645
- Cite (ACL):
- Felix Petersen, Moritz Schubotz, Andre Greiner-Petter, and Bela Gipp. 2023. Neural Machine Translation for Mathematical Formulae. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 11534–11550, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Neural Machine Translation for Mathematical Formulae (Petersen et al., ACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2023.acl-long.645.pdf