Deep Neural Solver for Math Word Problems

EMNLP 2017  ·  Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Shuming Shi ·

This paper presents a deep neural solver to automatically solve math word problems. In contrast to previous statistical learning approaches, we directly translate math word problems to equation templates using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, without sophisticated feature engineering. We further design a hybrid model that combines the RNN model and a similarity-based retrieval model to achieve additional performance improvement. Experiments conducted on a large dataset show that the RNN model and the hybrid model significantly outperform state-of-the-art statistical learning methods for math word problem solving.

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Math23K

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ALG514

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Math Word Problem Solving ALG514 ZDC Accuracy (%) 79.7 # 4
Math Word Problem Solving Math23K Hybrid model w/ SNI Accuracy (5-fold) 64.7 # 14

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