Understanding Mathematical Discourse (1999)
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| Venue: | DIALOGUE. AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY |
| Citations: | 7 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Zinn99understandingmathematical,
author = {Claus Zinn},
title = {Understanding Mathematical Discourse},
booktitle = {DIALOGUE. AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY},
year = {1999},
pages = {7--9},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
Discourse Understanding is hard. This seems to be especially true for mathematical discourse, that is proofs. Restricting discourse to mathematical discourse allow us, however, to study the subject matter in its purest form. This domain of discourse is rich and welldefined, highly structured, offers a well-defined set of discourse relations and forces/allows us to apply mathematical reasoning. We give a brief discussion on selected linguistic phenomena of mathematical discourse, and an analysis from the mathematician’s point of view. Requirements for a theory of discourse representation are given, followed by a discussion of proofs plans that provide necessary context and structure. A large part of semantics construction is defined in terms of proof plan recognition and instantiation by matching and attaching.
