Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Science

Major

Computer Science

Date of Defense

6-22-2020

Graduate Advisor

Wenjie He

Committee

Wenjie He

Badri Adhikari

Uday K Chakraborty

Abstract

The realm of automated problem solving is a relatively new field, even in the context of natural language processing. One area where this is often demonstrated is that of creating a program that can solve word problems. The program must understand the problem, perform some processing, and then convey this information to a user in a way that is accessible and understandable. There has been quite a lot of progress in this area with simpler problems. However, when it comes to understanding problems that involve a level of NLP, the results are not conclusive. In this paper, we would like to present a new approach to automated word problem solving that places great emphasis on problem translation through the use of pattern matching and POS tagging.

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