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Number-enhanced representation with hierarchical recursive tree decoding for math word problem solving

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张熠 (Yi Zhang)
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Guangyou Zhou *
谢志文 cover
谢志文 (Zhiwen Xie)
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Jimmy Xiangji Huang
DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103585delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Automatic solving math word problems (MWPs) is a number-intensive application in natural language processing (NLP). However, these existing methods are far from achieving acceptable levels of numeracy learning. As a result, the performance of these models is limited for mathe-matical reasoning. In addition, the mainstream tree decoder suffers from early-stage information loss, resulting in an unsatisfactory performance for complex problems with more operators. In this paper, we propose NERHRT (Number-Enhanced Representation with Hierarchical Recursive Tree Decoding), a simple yet effective number embedding method that produces the numerical reasoning via the decimal notation-based embedding and a dual-direction graph attention network. In addition, a hierarchical recursive tree-structured decoder is introduced to aggregate information from all ancestor nodes. Experiments show that our approach obtains the best performance on four popular benchmark datasets, and beats the state-of-the-art models with a large margin.
Keywords:
Math word problem solving
Numerical reasoning
Tree decoder

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Information Processing and Management
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Central China Normal University
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york university - canada
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