Modeling Intra-Relation in Math Word Problems with Different Functional Multi-Head Attentions

Jierui Li, Lei Wang, Jipeng Zhang, Yan Wang, Bing Tian Dai, Dongxiang Zhang


Abstract
Several deep learning models have been proposed for solving math word problems (MWPs) automatically. Although these models have the ability to capture features without manual efforts, their approaches to capturing features are not specifically designed for MWPs. To utilize the merits of deep learning models with simultaneous consideration of MWPs’ specific features, we propose a group attention mechanism to extract global features, quantity-related features, quantity-pair features and question-related features in MWPs respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed approach performs significantly better than previous state-of-the-art methods, and boost performance from 66.9% to 69.5% on Math23K with training-test split, from 65.8% to 66.9% on Math23K with 5-fold cross-validation and from 69.2% to 76.1% on MAWPS.
Anthology ID:
P19-1619
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
6162–6167
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1619
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1619
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Cite (ACL):
Jierui Li, Lei Wang, Jipeng Zhang, Yan Wang, Bing Tian Dai, and Dongxiang Zhang. 2019. Modeling Intra-Relation in Math Word Problems with Different Functional Multi-Head Attentions. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6162–6167, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Modeling Intra-Relation in Math Word Problems with Different Functional Multi-Head Attentions (Li et al., ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1619.pdf
Code
 lijierui/group-attention
Data
MAWPSMath23K