ProblemSolver at SemEval-2019 Task 10: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning and Expression Trees

Xuefeng Luo, Alina Baranova, Jonas Biegert


Abstract
This paper describes our participation in SemEval-2019 shared task “Math Question Answering”, where the aim is to create a program that could solve the Math SAT questions automatically as accurately as possible. We went with a dual-pronged approach, building a Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Network pre-trained with augmented data that could answer all categories of questions and a Tree system, which can only answer a certain type of questions. The systems did not perform well on the entire test data given in the task, but did decently on the questions they were actually capable of answering. The Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Network model managed to get slightly better than our baseline of guessing “A” for every question, while the Tree system additionally improved the results.
Anthology ID:
S19-2227
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1292–1296
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2227
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2227
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Cite (ACL):
Xuefeng Luo, Alina Baranova, and Jonas Biegert. 2019. ProblemSolver at SemEval-2019 Task 10: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning and Expression Trees. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1292–1296, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ProblemSolver at SemEval-2019 Task 10: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning and Expression Trees (Luo et al., SemEval 2019)
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