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MathWebSearch 0.5: Scaling an Open Formula Search Engine

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Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2012)

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MathWebSearch is an open-source, open-format, content-oriented search engine for mathematical formulae. It is a complete system capable of crawling, indexing, and querying expressions based on their functional structure (operator tree) rather than their presentation.

In version 0.5, we concentrate on scalability issues in MathWebSearch to take advantage of corpora in the giga-formula range. We re-implemented the index to make it distributable and made all the APIs web standards conformant. Our experiments show that this architecture results in a scalable application.

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  1. Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

    Michael Kohlhase, Bogdan A. Matican & Corneliu-Claudiu Prodescu

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University and Open Universiteit Nederland, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Johan Jeuring

  2. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    John A. Campbell

  3. Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, L8S 4K1, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Jacques Carette

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77843-3112, College Station, TX, USA

    Gabriel Dos Reis

  5. Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 60200, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  6. Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI - UMR8623) PCRI, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 650, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Makarius Wenzel

  7. The University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science,, B15 2TT, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

    Volker Sorge

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Kohlhase, M., Matican, B.A., Prodescu, CC. (2012). MathWebSearch 0.5: Scaling an Open Formula Search Engine. In: Jeuring, J., et al. Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31374-5_23

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