Abstract
In this paper, we give a brief survey of the difficulties in handling the syntax of mathematical expressions in Universal Dependencies, focusing on examples from English language corpora. We first examine the prevalence and current handling of mathematical expressions in UD corpora. We then examine several strategies for how to approach the handling of syntactic dependencies for such expressions: as multi-word expressions, as a domain appropriate for code-switching, or as approximate to other types of natural language. Ultimately, we argue that mathematical expressions should primarily be analyzed as natural language, and we offer recommendations for the treatment of basic mathematical expressions as analogous to English natural language.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.law-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Venue:
- LAW
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 19–30
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.law-1.3
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Lauren Levine. 2023. Difficulties in Handling Mathematical Expressions in Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), pages 19–30, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Difficulties in Handling Mathematical Expressions in Universal Dependencies (Levine, LAW 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/2023.law-1.3.pdf