Taehun and Jaeheun with the poster at COLING 2022 (Gyeongju, South Korea)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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Publication
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Donghun Lee
Assistant Professor
Connecting artificial intelligence and mathematics, in both directions.