Mathematical expression input tool

Abstract

LaTeX is a high quality typesetting system, used to prepare scientific and technical documents. It has its own syntax and scripting style to produce mathematical and scientific text/symbols, on any LaTeX interpretable text editor. To use LaTeX, it is important for the user to strictly adhere to its syntax and hence be conversant with it, which is quite inconvenient. This project is focused on producing a user-friendly software tool, which would take in common mathematical text/symbols based on natural language as user input, then present a list of matching suggestions for that input and finally return the LaTeX code corresponding to the user choice out of the list of suggestions. The user-friendliness depends on how well both the natural input processing algorithms and the user input-to-LaTeX mapped database are tuned and optimized. Hence this project would always produce new updates and progress would be made as refinements and optimizations to the algorithms and database is inevitable.