project \cite{APSCGS03}.
Its name suggests that it is supposed to be the first of a group of query
languages for retrieving information from distributed digital libraries of
-formal mathematical knowledge, but no other languages of this proposal have
-been implemented yet except for {\MathQL} that is not Mathematics-oriented.
-So the name is a bit misleading.
-
-\xcomment {
-
-The MathQL proposal rises within the HELM project with the final aim of
-providing a set of query languages for digital libraries of formalized
-mathematical resources, capable of expressing content-aware requests.
-
+formal mathematical knowledge by means of content-aware requests, but no other
+languages of this proposal have been implemented yet except for {\MathQL} that
+is not Mathematics-oriented. So the name is a bit misleading.
This proposal has several domains of application and may be useful for
database or on-line libraries reviewers, for proof assistants or
proof-checking systems, and also for learning environments because these
applications require features for classifying, searching and browsing
mathematical information in a semantically meaningful way.
-As the most natural way to handle content information about a resource is
-by means of metadata, our first task is providing a query language that we
-call MathQL level 1 (or {\MathQL} for short), suitable for a metadata
-framework.
Other languages to be defined in the context of the MathQL proposal may be
suitable for queries about the semantic structure of mathematical data:
-this includes content-based pattern-matching (MathQL-2) and possibly other
-forms of formal matching involving for instance isomorphism, unification and
+this includes content-based pattern-matching and possibly other forms of
+formal matching involving for instance isomorphism, unification and
$\delta$-expansion%
-\footnote{by $\delta$-expansion we mean the expansion of definitions.}
-(MathQL-3).
-
-In this perspective the role of a query on metadata can be that of producing a
+\footnote{By $\delta$-expansion we mean the expansion of definitions.}.
+In this perspective the role of a query on metadata is that of producing a
filtered knowledge base containing relevant information for subsequent queries
-of other kind.
-
-}
+of other kind (see \cite{GSC03} for a more detailed description of this
+approach).
{\MathQL} is carefully designed for making up for two limitations that seem to
characterize several implementations and proposals of current {\RDF}-oriented
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