@inproceedings{horspool-aycock-2000-analysis,
    title = "Analysis of Equation Structure using Least Cost Parsing",
    author = "Horspool, R. Nigel  and
      Aycock, John",
    editor = "Lavelli, Alberto  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Berwick, Robert C.  and
      Bunt, Harry C.  and
      Carpenter, Bob  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Church, Ken  and
      Johnson, Mark  and
      Joshi, Aravind  and
      Kaplan, Ronald  and
      Kay, Martin  and
      Lang, Bernard  and
      Lavie, Alon  and
      Nijholt, Anton  and
      Samuelsson, Christer  and
      Steedman, Mark  and
      Stock, Oliviero  and
      Tanaka, Hozumi  and
      Tomita, Masaru  and
      Uszkoreit, Hans  and
      Vijay-Shanker, K.  and
      Weir, David  and
      Wiren, Mats",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
    month = feb # " 23-25",
    year = "2000",
    address = "Trento, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2000.iwpt-1.36/",
    pages = "307--308",
    abstract = "Mathematical equations in LaTeX are composed with tags that express formatting as opposed to structure. For conversion from LaTeX to other word-processing systems, the structure of each equation must be inferred. We show how a form of least cost parsing used with a very general and ambiguous grammar may be used to select an appropriate structure for a LaTeX equation. MathML provides another application for the same technology; it has two alternative tagging schemes - presentation tags to specify formatting and content tags to specify structure. While conversion from content tagging to presentation tagging is straightforward, the converse is not. Our implementation of least cost parsing is based on Earley{'}s algorithm."
}