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Accelerating Substructure Similarity Search for Formula Retrieval

  • Wei Zhong
  • , Shaurya Rohatgi
  • , Jian Wu
  • , C. Lee Giles
  • , Richard Zanibbi

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Abstract

Formula retrieval systems using substructure matching are effective, but suffer from slow retrieval times caused by the complexity of structure matching. We present a specialized inverted index and rank-safe dynamic pruning algorithm for faster substructure retrieval. Formulas are indexed from their Operator Tree (OPT) representations. Our model is evaluated using the NTCIR-12 Wikipedia Formula Browsing Task and a new formula corpus produced from Math StackExchange posts. Our approach preserves the effectiveness of structure matching while allowing queries to be executed in real-time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Proceedings
EditorsJoemon M. Jose, Emine Yilmaz, João Magalhães, Flávio Martins, Pablo Castells, Nicola Ferro, Mário J. Silva
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages714-727
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030454388
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2020 - Virtual, Online, Portugal
Duration: Apr 14 2020Apr 17 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12035 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2020
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/14/204/17/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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