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Math Word Problem (MWP) solving presents a challenging task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This study aims to provide MWP solvers with a more diverse training set, ultimately improving their ability to solve various math problems. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Gulsum Yigit , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

A practical automatic textual math word problems (MWPs) solver should be able to solve various textual MWPs while most existing works only focused on one-unknown linear MWPs. Herein, we propose a simple but efficient method called Universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jinghui Qin , Lihui Lin , Xiaodan Liang , Rumin Zhang , Liang Lin

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

It's hard for neural MWP solvers to deal with tiny local variances. In MWP task, some local changes conserve the original semantic while the others may totally change the underlying logic. Currently, existing datasets for MWP task contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Ailisi Li , 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…

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 (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

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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunshi Lan , Lei Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

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

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

The problem of designing NLP solvers for math word problems (MWP) has seen sustained research activity and steady gains in the test accuracy. Since existing solvers achieve high performance on the benchmark datasets for elementary level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Arkil Patel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Navin Goyal

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

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

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

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

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

Recently, deep learning models have made great progress in MWP solving on answer accuracy. However, they are uninterpretable since they mainly rely on shallow heuristics to achieve high performance without understanding and reasoning the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhicheng Yang , Jinghui Qin , Jiaqi Chen , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

From the latter half of the last decade, there has been a growing interest in developing algorithms for automatically solving mathematical word problems (MWP). It is a challenging and unique task that demands blending surface level text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Sowmya S Sundaram , Sairam Gurajada , Marco Fisichella , Deepak P , Savitha Sam Abraham

A math word problem (MWP) is a coherent narrative which reflects the underlying logic of math equations. Successful MWP generation can automate the writing of mathematics questions. Previous methods mainly generate MWP text based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Tianyang Cao , Shuang Zeng , Xiaodan Xu , Mairgup Mansur , Baobao Chang