Modelling the way mathematics is actually done

@article{Corneli2017ModellingTW,
  title={Modelling the way mathematics is actually done},
  author={Joseph Corneli and Ursula Martin and Dave Murray-Rust and Alison Pease and Raymond S Puzio and Gabriela Asli Rino Nesin},
  journal={Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling, and Design},
  year={2017}
}
Whereas formal mathematical theories are well studied, computers cannot yet adequately represent and reason about mathematical dialogues and other informal texts. To address this gap, we have developed a representation and reasoning strategy that draws on contemporary argumentation theory and classic AI techniques for representing and querying narratives and dialogues. In order to make the structures that these modelling tools produce accessible to computational reasoning, we encode… 
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