Towards Semantic Search for Mathematical Notation

The paper concerns the design and implementation of a search engine for mathematical expressions given by the user in a convenient form of natural language or visual queries. Proper presentation and transcription of the mathematical notation is substantial for further processing and the adequate choice of the word distance measure for string comparison is an important issue as well. Within this project a complete solution for acquiring and processing the mathematical query and a searching algorithm is elaborated. We present results of exemplary search queries obtained for different types of input data format with application of two different word distance measures and discuss briefly the observed properties.