"Building a search engine for algorithms" by Suppawong Tuarob, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles with Martin Vesely as coordinator
Suppawong Tuarob, Prasenjit Mitra, Clyde Lee Giles · ACM SIGWEB Newsletter · 2014
A significant number of scholarly articles in computer science and other disciplines contain algorithms that provide concise descriptions for solving a wide variety of computational problems. Automatically finding and extracting these algorithms in scholarly digital documents would make possible algorithm indexing, searching, discovering, and analysis. Currently, only well known algorithms are cataloged. In order to find new and cutting-edge algorithms, a user must manually search through a large collection of scholarly documents or author homepages. In this article, we describe an initial prototype of AlgorithmSeer , a system for extracting, indexing, and searching for algorithms in scholarly documents. The initial system has been tested as part of the CiteSeer X digital library and search engine. Current issues and future directions, such as algorithm information extraction and classification, are also discussed.