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VisualMath: An Automated Visualization System for Understanding Math Word-Problems

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Utkarsh Dwivedi,

Nitendra Rajput,

Prasenjit Dey,

Blessin VarkeyAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '17 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Pages 105 - 108

https://doi.org/10.1145/3030024.3040989

Published: 07 March 2017 Publication History

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Abstract

Math word problems are difficult for students to start with since they involve understanding the problem?s context and abstracting out its underlying mathematical operations. A visual understanding of the problem at hand can be very useful for the comprehension of the problem. We present a system VisualMath that uses machine learning tools and crafted visual logic to automatically generate appropriate visualizations from the text of the word-problems and solve it. We demonstrate the improvements in the understanding of math word-problems by conducting a user study and learning of meaning of relevant new words by students.

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IUI '17 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

March 2017

246 pages

ISBN:9781450348935

DOI:10.1145/3030024

General Chairs:
George A. Papadopoulos
The University of Cyprus, Cyprus
,
Tsvi Kuflik
The University of Haifa, Israel
,
Program Chairs:
Fang Chen
Data61, CSIRO Australia
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Carlos Duarte
The University of Lisbon, Portugal
,
Wai-Tat Fu
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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