Semantic Parsing of Pre-university Math Problems

Takuya Matsuzaki, Takumi Ito, Hidenao Iwane, Hirokazu Anai, Noriko H. Arai


Abstract
We have been developing an end-to-end math problem solving system that accepts natural language input. The current paper focuses on how we analyze the problem sentences to produce logical forms. We chose a hybrid approach combining a shallow syntactic analyzer and a manually-developed lexicalized grammar. A feature of the grammar is that it is extensively typed on the basis of a formal ontology for pre-university math. These types are helpful in semantic disambiguation inside and across sentences. Experimental results show that the hybrid system produces a well-formed logical form with 88% precision and 56% recall.
Anthology ID:
P17-1195
Volume:
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2131–2141
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P17-1195
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-1195
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Takuya Matsuzaki, Takumi Ito, Hidenao Iwane, Hirokazu Anai, and Noriko H. Arai. 2017. Semantic Parsing of Pre-university Math Problems. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2131–2141, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Semantic Parsing of Pre-university Math Problems (Matsuzaki et al., ACL 2017)
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