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Formula search on a million scientific documents

http://arxivsearch.mathweb.org

We, at KWARC, developed a search engine capable of searching arXiv, see [1]. It can search latex-style formulae and CMML formulae. In addition, one can also use "query variables", which means that if I search for, e.g., "?a + ?a" (?a is a query variable), I will get all sums of two equal terms. ?a could be an integral, a fancy function, or just a one-letter variabl
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Re:Formula search on a million scientific documents by mathguru73 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @04:00PM (#9070898)
Very nice approach :)

Can you provide some insight into the algorithm behind it?