An ALBERT-based Similarity Measure for Mathematical Answer Retrieval

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Abstract

Mathematical Language Processing (MLP) deals with the automated processing and analysis of mathematical documents and relies heavily on good representations of mathematical symbols and texts. The aim of this work is to explore the modeling capabilities of state-of-the-art unsupervised deep learning methods to create such representations. Therefore, we pre-trained different instances of an ALBERT model on Mathematics StackExchange data and fine-tuned it on the task of Mathematical Answer Retrieval. Our evaluation shows that ALBERT outperforms all previous systems and is on par with current state-of-the-art systems for math retrieval indicating strong capabilities of modeling mathematical posts. This implies that our approach can also be beneficial to various other tasks in MLP such as automatic proof checking or summarization of scientific texts.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR '21: Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1593-1597
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4503-8037-9
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIR: Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Title44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2021
Duration11 - 15 July 2021
CityVirtual, Online
CountryCanada

External IDs

Scopus 85111688215
ORCID /0000-0001-8107-2775/work/142253439

Keywords

Keywords

  • information retrieval, mathematical language processing