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Mathematical notation is a structured, open, and ambiguous language. In order to support mathematical notation in MKM applications one must necessarily take into account presentational as well as semantic aspects. The former are required to create a familiar, comfortable, and usable interface to interact with. The latter are necessary in order to process the information meaningfully.
In this paper we investigate a framework for dealing with mathematical notation in a meaningful, extensible way, and we show an effective instantiation of its architecture to the field of interactive theorem proving. The framework builds upon well-known concepts and widely-used technologies and it can be easily adopted by other MKM applications.
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Padovani, L., Zacchiroli, S. (2006). From Notation to Semantics: There and Back Again. In: Borwein, J.M., Farmer, W.M. (eds) Mathematical Knowledge Management. MKM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11812289_16
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