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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

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

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

Math word problem (MWP) is a challenging and critical task in natural language processing. Many recent studies formalize MWP as a generation task and have adopted sequence-to-sequence models to transform problem descriptions to mathematical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jianhao Shen , Yichun Yin , Lin Li , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Ming Zhang , Qun Liu

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

Mathematics is often perceived as a complex subject by students, leading to high failure rates in exams. To improve Mathematics skills, it is important to provide sample questions for students to practice problem-solving. Manually creating…

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

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

Recent years have seen significant advancement in text generation tasks with the help of neural language models. However, there exists a challenging task: generating math problem text based on mathematical equations, which has made little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Cao , Shuang Zeng , Songge Zhao , Mairgup Mansur , Baobao Chang

Solving math word problem (MWP) with AI techniques has recently made great progress with the success of deep neural networks (DNN), but it is far from being solved. We argue that the ability of learning by analogy is essential for an MWP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zihao Zhou , Maizhen Ning , Qiufeng Wang , Jie Yao , Wei Wang , Xiaowei Huang , Kaizhu Huang

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

Math Word Problem (MWP) solving is a critical task in natural language processing, has garnered significant research interest in recent years. Various recent studies heavily rely on Seq2Seq models and their extensions (e.g., Seq2Tree and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yi Zhang , Guangyou Zhou , Zhiwen Xie , Jinjin Ma , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

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 problem (MWP) serves as a fundamental research topic in artificial intelligence (AI) dating back to 1960s. This research aims to advance the reasoning abilities of AI by mirroring the human-like cognitive intelligence. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhenya Huang , Jiayu Liu , Xin Lin , Zhiyuan Ma , Shangzi Xue , Tong Xiao , Qi Liu , Yee Whye Teh , Enhong Chen

Solutions to math word problems (MWPs) with step-by-step explanations are valuable, especially in education, to help students better comprehend problem-solving strategies. Most existing approaches only focus on obtaining the final correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mengxue Zhang , Zichao Wang , Zhichao Yang , Weiqi Feng , Andrew Lan

Standard accuracy metrics have shown that Math Word Problem (MWP) solvers have achieved high performance on benchmark datasets. However, the extent to which existing MWP solvers truly understand language and its relation with numbers is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Vivek Kumar , Rishabh Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Math word problem (MWP) solving aims to understand the descriptive math problem and calculate the result, for which previous efforts are mostly devoted to upgrade different technical modules. This paper brings a different perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yi Bin , Wenhao Shi , Yujuan Ding , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng

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 problems (MWPs) are critical K-12 educational tools, and customizing them to students' interests and ability levels can enhance learning. However, teachers struggle to find time to customize MWPs for students given large class…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bryan R. Christ , Penelope Molitz , Beau LeBlond , Zachary Gottesman , Jonathan Kropko , Thomas Hartvigsen

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
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