Hello :) I am a CS PhD student at the High-Performance Visualization Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. My advisor is Professor Markus Hadwiger. My research interests are Scientific Visualization and GPU Programming.
This paper studies solving Arabic Math Word Problems by deep learning. A Math Word Problem (MWP) is a text description of a mathematical problem that can be solved by deriving a math equation to reach the answer. Effective models have been developed for solving MWPs in English and Chinese. However, Arabic MWPs are rarely studied. This paper contributes the first large-scale dataset for Arabic MWPs, which contains 6,000 samples of primary-school math problems, written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Arabic MWP solvers are then built with deep learning models and evaluated on this dataset. In addition, a transfer learning model is built to let the high-resource Chinese MWP solver promote the performance of the low-resource Arabic MWP solver. This work is the first to use deep learning methods to solve Arabic MWP and the first to use transfer learning to solve MWP across different languages. The transfer learning enhanced solver has an accuracy of 74.15%, which is 3% higher than the solver without using transfer learning. We make the dataset and solvers available in public for encouraging more research of Arabic MWPs: https://github.com/reem-codes/ArMATH
@inproceedings{alghamdi-etal-2022-armath,title={{A}r{MATH}: a Dataset for Solving {A}rabic Math Word Problems},author={Alghamdi, Reem and Liang, Zhenwen and Zhang, Xiangliang},booktitle={Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},month=jun,year={2022},address={Marseille, France},publisher={European Language Resources Association},url={https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.37},pages={351--362}}
Research Experience
Jan, 2022 - Present
Graduate Student Researcher
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
I Took courses in Scientific Visualization, GPU programming, AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Probability & Statistics in R.
Aug, 2016 - Jun, 2020
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia