Noun-MWP: Math Word Problems Meet Noun Answers

Taehun Cha, Jaeheun Jung, Donghun Lee


Abstract
We introduce a new type of problems for math word problem (MWP) solvers, named Noun-MWPs, whose answer is a non-numerical string containing a noun from the problem text. We present a novel method to empower existing MWP solvers to handle Noun-MWPs, and apply the method on Expression-Pointer Transformer (EPT). Our model, N-EPT, solves Noun-MWPs significantly better than other models, and at the same time, solves conventional MWPs as well. Solving Noun-MWPs may lead to bridging MWP solvers and traditional question-answering NLP models.
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2022.coling-1.338
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2022.coling-1.338v1
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2022.coling-1.338v2
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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3847–3857
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.338
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Taehun Cha, Jaeheun Jung, and Donghun Lee. 2022. Noun-MWP: Math Word Problems Meet Noun Answers. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3847–3857, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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