| Challenge: | Scientific documents rely on mathematics to communicate ideas and results . textual contexts are strong domainspecific conventions governing how content is presented . |
| Approach: | They introduce a task of assigning one mathematical type to each variable in a sentence . they also introduce 'variable typing' task that focuses on assignment of meaning to variables . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is the best performing model on an extrinsic task, the authors show . their model is compared to a formula index only containing raw symbols . |
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