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Math Reasoning using NLP Techniques

The recent trends in NLP has shown great interest in understanding text to perform various tasks. Understanding text to perform mathematical reasoning have focused on automatically solving school level math word problems. Advancement in this area has great potential to be used as automatic tutoring service for school students. This blog focuses on a web based tool named ILLINOIS MATH SOLVER that supports performing mathematical reasoning [1]. The solver can answer a wide range of mathematics questions, ranging from operation questions like “What is the result when 6 is divided by the sum of 7 and 5 ?”  to elementary school level math word problems, like “I bought 6 apples. I ate 3 of them. How many do I have left ?”.  ILLINOIS MATH SOLVER provides an easy way to test the robustness of the system, and a tool for crowd based data acquisition. Fig. Screenshot of Illinois Math Solver Working Description The whole system comprises of two different modules, firstly a Conte...