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Math word problems (MWPs) require analyzing text descriptions and generating mathematical equations to derive solutions. Existing works focus on solving MWPs with two types of solvers: tree-based solver and large language model (LLM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Yao , Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang

Existing MWP solvers employ sequence or binary tree to present the solution expression and decode it from given problem description. However, such structures fail to handle the variants that can be derived via mathematical manipulation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi Bin , Mengqun Han , Wenhao Shi , Lei Wang , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Heng Tao Shen

As one of the challenging NLP tasks, designing math word problem (MWP) solvers has attracted increasing research attention for the past few years. In previous work, models designed by taking into account the properties of the binary tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Bin Wang , Jiangzhou Ju , Yang Fan , Xinyu Dai , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen

Developing automatic Math Word Problem (MWP) solvers is a challenging task that demands the ability of understanding and mathematical reasoning over the natural language. Recent neural-based approaches mainly encode the problem text using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Youyuan Zhang

Solving mathematical word problems (MWPs) automatically is challenging, primarily due to the semantic gap between human-readable words and machine-understandable logics. Despite the long history dated back to the1960s, MWPs have regained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dongxiang Zhang , Lei Wang , Luming Zhang , Bing Tian Dai , Heng Tao Shen

Math word problem (MWP) solving is an important task in question answering which requires human-like reasoning ability. Analogical reasoning has long been used in mathematical education, as it enables students to apply common relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zhenwen Liang , Jipeng Zhang , Xiangliang Zhang

The art of mathematical reasoning stands as a fundamental pillar of intellectual progress and is a central catalyst in cultivating human ingenuity. Researchers have recently published a plethora of works centered around the task of solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Syed Rifat Raiyan , Md. Nafis Faiyaz , Shah Md. Jawad Kabir , Mohsinul Kabir , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

Math Word Problems (MWP) is an important task that requires the ability of understanding and reasoning over mathematical text. Existing approaches mostly formalize it as a generation task by adopting Seq2Seq or Seq2Tree models to encode an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ailisi Li , Xueyao Jiang , Bang Liu , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao

Solving math word problems is a challenging task that requires accurate natural language understanding to bridge natural language texts and math expressions. Motivated by the intuition about how human generates the equations given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ting-Rui Chiang , Yun-Nung Chen

Math word problems (MWPs) is a task that automatically derives solution expression from a giving math problems in text. The previous studies suffer from spurious correlations between input text and output expression. To mitigate this issue,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jing Xiong , Zhongwei Wan , Xiping Hu , Min Yang , Chengming Li

In this paper, we revisit the solving bias when evaluating models on current Math Word Problem (MWP) benchmarks. However, current solvers exist solving bias which consists of data bias and learning bias due to biased dataset and improper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhicheng Yang , Jinghui Qin , Jiaqi Chen , Xiaodan Liang

Developing automatic Math Word Problem (MWP) solvers has been an interest of NLP researchers since the 1960s. Over the last few years, there are a growing number of datasets and deep learning-based methods proposed for effectively solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yihuai Lan , Lei Wang , Qiyuan Zhang , Yunshi Lan , Bing Tian Dai , Yan Wang , Dongxiang Zhang , Ee-Peng Lim

Mathematical reasoning would be one of the next frontiers for artificial intelligence to make significant progress. The ongoing surge to solve math word problems (MWPs) and hence achieve better mathematical reasoning ability would continue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Keyur Faldu , Amit Sheth , Prashant Kikani , Manas Gaur , Aditi Avasthi

This paper presents a novel approach to automatically solving arithmetic word problems. This is the first algorithmic approach that can handle arithmetic problems with multiple steps and operations, without depending on additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Subhro Roy , Dan Roth

We study the problem of generating arithmetic math word problems (MWPs) given a math equation that specifies the mathematical computation and a context that specifies the problem scenario. Existing approaches are prone to generating MWPs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zichao Wang , Andrew S. Lan , Richard G. Baraniuk

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at various tasks, including problem-solving and question-answering. However, LLMs often find Math Word Problems (MWPs) challenging because solving them requires a range of reasoning and mathematical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mitchell Piehl , Dillon Wilson , Ananya Kalita , Jugal Kalita

In this paper, we revisit math word problems~(MWPs) from the cross-lingual and multilingual perspective. We construct our MWP solvers over pretrained multilingual language models using sequence-to-sequence model with copy mechanism. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Minghuan Tan , Lei Wang , Lingxiao Jiang , Jing Jiang

There is an increasing interest in the use of mathematical word problem (MWP) generation in educational assessment. Different from standard natural question generation, MWP generation needs to maintain the underlying mathematical operations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Tianqiao Liu , Qiang Fang , Wenbiao Ding , Hang Li , Zhongqin Wu , Zitao Liu

Math Word Problems (MWPs) in online assessments help test the ability of the learner to make critical inferences by interpreting the linguistic information in them. To test the mathematical reasoning capabilities of the learners, sometimes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mayank Goel , Venktesh V , Vikram Goyal

Sequence-to-sequence (SEQ2SEQ) models have been successfully applied to automatic math word problem solving. Despite its simplicity, a drawback still remains: a math word problem can be correctly solved by more than one equations. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Lei Wang , Yan Wang , Deng Cai , Dongxiang Zhang , Xiaojiang Liu
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