Constructing high-level representations



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Constructing high-level representations

  This section describes the techniques used to extract high-level models from the La)TeX source. A recursive descent parsing algorithm is used to construct the tree structure for document content conforming to the model described in s:high-level-models. This algorithm is modified to construct the quasi-prefix form. These refinements enable our recognizer to correctly handle ambiguous mathematical notation, as in the expression [tex2html_wrap5368]. We use a modified version of the conventional operator-precedence approach for constructing the quasi-prefix form. With the refinements and heuristics outlined in this section, our algorithm successfully recognizes written mathematical notation from a wide variety of sources.





TV Raman
Thu Mar 9 20:10:41 EST 1995