A Diverse Corpus for Evaluating and Developing English Math Word Problem Solvers

Shen-yun Miao, Chao-Chun Liang, Keh-Yih Su


Abstract
We present ASDiv (Academia Sinica Diverse MWP Dataset), a diverse (in terms of both language patterns and problem types) English math word problem (MWP) corpus for evaluating the capability of various MWP solvers. Existing MWP corpora for studying AI progress remain limited either in language usage patterns or in problem types. We thus present a new English MWP corpus with 2,305 MWPs that cover more text patterns and most problem types taught in elementary school. Each MWP is annotated with its problem type and grade level (for indicating the level of difficulty). Furthermore, we propose a metric to measure the lexicon usage diversity of a given MWP corpus, and demonstrate that ASDiv is more diverse than existing corpora. Experiments show that our proposed corpus reflects the true capability of MWP solvers more faithfully.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.92
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
975–984
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.92
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.92
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Cite (ACL):
Shen-yun Miao, Chao-Chun Liang, and Keh-Yih Su. 2020. A Diverse Corpus for Evaluating and Developing English Math Word Problem Solvers. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 975–984, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
A Diverse Corpus for Evaluating and Developing English Math Word Problem Solvers (Miao et al., ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.92.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38928951
Code
 chaochun/nlu-asdiv-dataset
Data
ASDivMathQA