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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 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 math word problems (MWPs) is an important and challenging problem in natural language processing. Existing approaches to solve MWPs require full supervision in the form of intermediate equations. However, labeling every MWP with its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Oishik Chatterjee , Isha Pandey , Aashish Waikar , Vishwajeet Kumar , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. Math Word Problems (MWPs) serve as a crucial benchmark for evaluating LLMs' reasoning abilities. While most research primarily focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuhong Sun , Zhangyue Yin , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu , Hui Zhao

Large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs) bring new opportunities to challenging problems, especially those that need high-level intelligence, such as the math word problem (MWPs). However, directly applying existing PLMs to MWPs can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xinyu Zhu , Junjie Wang , Lin Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Ruyi Gan , Jiaxing Zhang , Yujiu Yang

We propose Text2Math, a model for semantically parsing text into math expressions. The model can be used to solve different math related problems including arithmetic word problems and equation parsing problems. Unlike previous approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yanyan Zou , Wei Lu

The celebrated Seq2Seq technique and its numerous variants achieve excellent performance on many tasks such as neural machine translation, semantic parsing, and math word problem solving. However, these models either only consider input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Shucheng Li , Lingfei Wu , Shiwei Feng , Fangli Xu , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

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 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

Previous neural solvers of math word problems (MWPs) are learned with full supervision and fail to generate diverse solutions. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing a \textit{weakly-supervised} paradigm for learning MWPs. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yining Hong , Qing Li , Daniel Ciao , Siyuan Huang , Song-Chun Zhu

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

Solving math word problems is the task that analyses the relation of quantities and requires an accurate understanding of contextual natural language information. Recent studies show that current models rely on shallow heuristics to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yibin Shen , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Fei Cheng , Sadao Kurohashi

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

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

Recently, quite a few novel neural architectures were derived to solve math word problems by predicting expression trees. These architectures varied from seq2seq models, including encoders leveraging graph relationships combined with tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Keyur Faldu , Amit Sheth , Prashant Kikani , Darshan Patel

Large language models (LLMs) are known to struggle with complicated reasoning tasks such as math word problems (MWPs). In this paper, we present how analogy from similarly structured questions can improve LLMs' problem-solving capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaocong Yang , Jiacheng Lin , Ziqi Wang , Chengxiang Zhai

Math word problems form a natural abstraction to a range of quantitative reasoning problems, such as understanding financial news, sports results, and casualties of war. Solving such problems requires the understanding of several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Subhro Roy , Dan Roth

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

Automated math word problem solvers based on neural networks have successfully managed to obtain 70-80\% accuracy in solving arithmetic word problems. However, it has been shown that these solvers may rely on superficial patterns to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Abby Newcomb , Jugal Kalita

Compositional generalization refers to a model's capability to generalize to newly composed input data based on the data components observed during training. It has triggered a series of compositional generalization analysis on different…

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