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title = "Mapping probability word problems to executable representations",
author = "Suster, Simon and
Fivez, Pieter and
Totis, Pietro and
Kimmig, Angelika and
Davis, Jesse and
de Raedt, Luc and
Daelemans, Walter",
editor = "Moens, Marie-Francine and
Huang, Xuanjing and
Specia, Lucia and
Yih, Scott Wen-tau",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.294/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.294",
pages = "3627--3640",
abstract = "While solving math word problems automatically has received considerable attention in the NLP community, few works have addressed probability word problems specifically. In this paper, we employ and analyse various neural models for answering such word problems. In a two-step approach, the problem text is first mapped to a formal representation in a declarative language using a sequence-to-sequence model, and then the resulting representation is executed using a probabilistic programming system to provide the answer. Our best performing model incorporates general-domain contextualised word representations that were finetuned using transfer learning on another in-domain dataset. We also apply end-to-end models to this task, which bring out the importance of the two-step approach in obtaining correct solutions to probability problems."
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%A Suster, Simon
%A Fivez, Pieter
%A Totis, Pietro
%A Kimmig, Angelika
%A Davis, Jesse
%A de Raedt, Luc
%A Daelemans, Walter
%Y Moens, Marie-Francine
%Y Huang, Xuanjing
%Y Specia, Lucia
%Y Yih, Scott Wen-tau
%S Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2021
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
%F suster-etal-2021-mapping
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.294/
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%P 3627-3640
Markdown (Informal)
[Mapping probability word problems to executable representations](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.294/) (Suster et al., EMNLP 2021)
ACL
- Simon Suster, Pieter Fivez, Pietro Totis, Angelika Kimmig, Jesse Davis, Luc de Raedt, and Walter Daelemans. 2021. Mapping probability word problems to executable representations. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3627–3640, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.