Workshop on Mathematical User Interfaces

Semantic Markup for TeX/LaTeX

Abstract:

We present a collection of TEX macro packages that allow to markup TEX/LATEX documents semantically without leaving the document format, essentially turning TEX/LATEX into a document format for mathematical knowledge management (MKM).
We analyze the current practice of semi-semantic markup in LATEX documents and supply a definition mechanism for semantic macros and a non-standard scoping construct for them, which is oriented at the semantic dependency relation rather than the document structure.
We evaluate the STEX macro collection on a large case study: the course materials of a a two-semester course in Computer Science was annotated semantically and converted to the OMDoc MKM format Bruce Miller’s LaTeXML system.

[PDF]LTeX2OMdoc_MathUI04.pdfArticle (272Kb, 16 pages).

[PDF]SemanticLaTeX_slides_MathUI04.pdfSlides of presentation (120Kb, 19 slides).