Solving Korean Math Word Problems Using the Graph and Tree Structure

Kwang Ho Bae, Sang Yeop Yeo, Yu Chul Jung

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2022.49.11.972

In previous studies, there have been various efforts to solve math word problems in the English sentence system. In many studies, improved performance was achieved by introducing structures such as trees and graphs, beyond the Sequence-to-Sequence approaches. However, in the study of solving math problems in Korean sentence systems, there are no model cases, using structures such as trees or graphs. Thus, in this paper, we examine the possibility of solving math problems in Korean sentence systems for models using the tree structure, graph structure, and Korean pre-training language models together. Our experimental results showed that accuracy improved by approximately 20%, compared to the model of the Seq2seq structure, by introducing the graph and tree structure. Additionally, the use of the Korean pre-training language model showed an accuracy improvement of 4.66%-5.96%.