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title = "Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems",
author = "Zhang, Jipeng and
Wang, Lei and
Lee, Roy Ka-Wei and
Bin, Yi and
Wang, Yan and
Shao, Jie and
Lim, Ee-Peng",
editor = "Jurafsky, Dan and
Chai, Joyce and
Schluter, Natalie and
Tetreault, Joel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.362",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.362",
pages = "3928--3937",
abstract = "While the recent tree-based neural models have demonstrated promising results in generating solution expression for the math word problem (MWP), most of these models do not capture the relationships and order information among the quantities well. This results in poor quantity representations and incorrect solution expressions. In this paper, we propose Graph2Tree, a novel deep learning architecture that combines the merits of the graph-based encoder and tree-based decoder to generate better solution expressions. Included in our Graph2Tree framework are two graphs, namely the Quantity Cell Graph and Quantity Comparison Graph, which are designed to address limitations of existing methods by effectively representing the relationships and order information among the quantities in MWPs. We conduct extensive experiments on two available datasets. Our experiment results show that Graph2Tree outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines on two benchmark datasets significantly. We also discuss case studies and empirically examine Graph2Tree{'}s effectiveness in translating the MWP text into solution expressions.",
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%T Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems
%A Zhang, Jipeng
%A Wang, Lei
%A Lee, Roy Ka-Wei
%A Bin, Yi
%A Wang, Yan
%A Shao, Jie
%A Lim, Ee-Peng
%Y Jurafsky, Dan
%Y Chai, Joyce
%Y Schluter, Natalie
%Y Tetreault, Joel
%S Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.362
%P 3928-3937
Markdown (Informal)
[Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.362) (Zhang et al., ACL 2020)
ACL
- Jipeng Zhang, Lei Wang, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Yi Bin, Yan Wang, Jie Shao, and Ee-Peng Lim. 2020. Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3928–3937, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.