The MCAT Math Retrieval System for NTCIR-10 Math Track.

Abstract

NTCIR Math Track targets mathematical content access based on both natural language text and mathematical formulae. This paper describes the participation of MCAT group in the NTCIR math retrieval subtask and math understanding subtask. We introduce our mathematical search system that is capable of formula search, and full-text search. We also introduce our mathematical description extraction system which was based on a support vector machine model. Experimental results show that our generalpurpose search engine can work reasonably well with math queries.