The 2nd Workshop on Mathematical Natural Language Processing

A Half-day Workshop on Mathematical Language Processing

The articulation of mathematical arguments is a fundamental part of scientific reasoning and communication. Across many disciplines, expressing relations and interdependencies between quantities is at the centre of scientific argumentation. Nevertheless, despite its importance, the application of contemporary NLP models for inference over mathematical text remains under-explored or subject to important limitations. MathNLP represents a forum for discussing new ideas to advance research on Mathematical Natural Language Processing, welcoming novel contributions on model architectures, evaluation methods and downstream applications. 

Call for Papers

We welcome contributions of previously unpublished papers which could be either long (8 pages) or short (4 pages). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. The authors' identities must be concealed to enable a double-blind peer review, and all the conflicts of interest must be declared in advance. Moreover, papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the main conference Proceedings (authors-kit). 

MathNLP welcomes both archival and non-archival submissions. Only archival submissions will be included in the proceedings.

We are particularly interested in (but are not limited to) works related to the following topics:

• Neural/Neuro-symbolic architectures to support mathematical natural language inference;

• Large Language Models for Mathematics;

• Equational embeddings;

• Autoformalisation and translation from natural language to formal languages (and vice-versa);

• Linguistic analysis of mathematical discourse and argumentation relations in the context of mathematical text;

• Probing mathematical understanding of state-of-the-art models;

• Adaptation of NLP tasks for mathematical discourse;

• NLP applied to mathematics education;

• Premise selection over mathematical text;

• Understanding and typing of variables in mathematical text;

• Retrieval of equations/formulas/expressions based on textual queries;

• Retrieval of textual context based on equational queries.

MathNLP will use START Conference Manager to manage submissions. Papers must be submitted using the following link:

https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mathnlp2024/ 

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

Important dates 

(Anywhere on Earth)

March 1 March 10, 2024: Paper submission

March 15 March 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance

March 29, 2024: Camera-ready papers due

May 21, 2024: Workshop

Organizers

Previous Editions

MathNLP: The 1st Workshop on Mathematical Natural Language Processing (at EMNLP 2022)

• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/1st-mathnlp/home

• Proceedings: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.mathnlp-1/