TY - GEN
T1 - Machine-guided solution to mathematical word problems
AU - Amnueypornsakul, Bussaba
AU - Bhat, Suma
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Mathematical word problems (MWP) test critical aspects of reading comprehension in conjunction with generating a solution that agrees with the "story" in the problem. In this paper we design and construct an MWP solver in a systematic manner, as a step towards enabling comprehension in mathematics and teaching problem solving for children in the elementary grades. We do this by (a) identifying the discourse structure of MWPs that will enable comprehension in mathematics, and (b) utilizing the information in the discourse structure towards generating the solution in a systematic manner. We build a multistage software prototype that predicts the problem type, identifies the function of sentences in each problem, and extracts the necessary information from the question to generate the corresponding mathematical equation. Our prototype has an accuracy of 86% on a large corpus of MWPs of three problem types from elementary grade mathematics curriculum.
AB - Mathematical word problems (MWP) test critical aspects of reading comprehension in conjunction with generating a solution that agrees with the "story" in the problem. In this paper we design and construct an MWP solver in a systematic manner, as a step towards enabling comprehension in mathematics and teaching problem solving for children in the elementary grades. We do this by (a) identifying the discourse structure of MWPs that will enable comprehension in mathematics, and (b) utilizing the information in the discourse structure towards generating the solution in a systematic manner. We build a multistage software prototype that predicts the problem type, identifies the function of sentences in each problem, and extracts the necessary information from the question to generate the corresponding mathematical equation. Our prototype has an accuracy of 86% on a large corpus of MWPs of three problem types from elementary grade mathematics curriculum.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84994099170
T3 - Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
SP - 111
EP - 119
BT - Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
A2 - Boonkwan, Prachya
A2 - Aroonmanakun, Wirote
A2 - Supnithi, Thepchai
PB - Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University
T2 - 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
Y2 - 12 December 2014 through 14 December 2014
ER -