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Enhancing Seq2seq Math Word Problem Solver with Entity Information and Math Knowledge

  • East China Normal University
  • Zhejiang University
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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Abstract

Devising an automatic Math Word Problem (MWP) solver has emerged as an important task in recent years. Various applications such as online education and intelligent assistants are expecting better MWP solvers to process complex user queries that involve numerical reasoning. Current seq2seq MWP solvers encounter two critical challenges: ordinal indices without semantics and insufficient training data. In this work, we propose Entity Random Indexing to equip indices with semantics and design diverse representations of math expressions to augment training data. Experimental results show that our approach effectively enhances the seq2seq MWP solver, which outperforms strong baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2022 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsRichard Chbeir, Helen Huang, Fabrizio Silvestri, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yanchun Zhang, Yanchun Zhang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages370-385
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031208904
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event23rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021 - Biarritz, France
Duration: 1 Nov 20223 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13724 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityBiarritz
Period1/11/223/11/22

Keywords

  • Entity information
  • Math knowledge
  • Math word problem
  • Seq2seq model

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