Math Word Problem Generation with Memory Retrieval

  • Xiaowei Wang
  • , Wei Qin
  • , Zhenzhen Hu*
  • , Lei Wang
  • , Yunshi Lan
  • , Richang Hong
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The task of math word problem generation (MWPG), which generates a math word problem (MWP) given an equation and several topic words, has increasingly attracted researchers’ attention. In this work, we propose a memory retrieval model to better take advantage of the training data. We first record training MWPs into a memory. Later we use the given equation and topic words to retrieve relevant items from the memory. The retrieved results are then used to complement the process of the MWP generation and improve the generation quality. In addition, we also propose a low-resource setting for MWPG, where only a small number of paired MWPs and a large amount of unpaired MWPs are available. Extensive experiments verify the superior performance and effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Computer Vision - 5th Chinese Conference, PRCV 2022, Proceedings
EditorsShiqi Yu, Jianguo Zhang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Tieniu Tan, Pong C. Yuen, Yike Guo, Junwei Han, Jianhuang Lai
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages372-385
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783031189128
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 4 Nov 20227 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13536 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period4/11/227/11/22

Keywords

  • Low-resource
  • Math word problem generation
  • Memory retrieval

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