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Deep Neural Solver for Math Word Problems

1 Sep 2017EMNLP 2017 9archive 2025-07-28

Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Shuming Shi

This paper presents a deep neural solver to automatically solve math word problems. In contrast to previous statistical learning approaches, we directly translate math word problems to equation templates using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, without sophisticated feature engineering. We further design a hybrid model that combines the RNN model and a similarity-based retrieval model to achieve additional performance improvement. Experiments conducted on a large dataset show that the RNN model and the hybrid model significantly outperform state-of-the-art statistical learning methods for math word problem solving.

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Feature EngineeringMachine TranslationMathMath Word Problem SolvingRetrievalSemantic Parsing

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Math23K

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Math Word Problem Solving ALG514 ZDC Accuracy (%) 79.7 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Math Word Problem Solving Math23K Hybrid model w/ SNI Accuracy (5-fold) 64.7 #15 of 19 Archive leaderboard report

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