Andrea Ferreira
2025
Building a Compact Math Corpus
Andrea Ferreira
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
Andrea Ferreira
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
This paper introduces the Compact Math Corpus (CMC), a preliminary resource for natural language processing in the mathematics domain. We process three open-access undergraduate textbooks from distinct mathematical areas and annotate them in the CoNLL-U format using a lightweight pipeline based on the spaCy Small model. The structured output enables the extraction of syntactic bigrams and TF-IDF scores, supporting a syntactic-semantic analysis of mathematical sentences.From the annotated data, we construct a classification dataset comprising bigrams potentially representing mathematical concepts, along with representative example sentences. We combine CMC with the conversational corpus UD English EWT and train a logistic regression model with K-fold cross-validation, achieving a minimum macro-F1 score of 0.989. These results indicate the feasibility of automatic concept identification in mathematical texts.The study is designed for easy replication in low-resource settings and to promote sustainable research practices. Our approach offers a viable path to tasks such as parser adaptation, terminology extraction, multiword expression modeling, and improved analysis of mathematical language structures.