@inproceedings{upadhyay-etal-2023-improving,
title = "Improving Mathematics Tutoring With A Code Scratchpad",
author = "Upadhyay, Shriyash and
Ginsberg, Etan and
Callison-Burch, Chris",
editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Burstein, Jill and
Horbach, Andrea and
Laarmann-Quante, Ronja and
Madnani, Nitin and
Tack, Ana{\"\i}s and
Yaneva, Victoria and
Yuan, Zheng and
Zesch, Torsten},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.2",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.2",
pages = "20--28",
abstract = "Large language models can solve reasoning tasks (like math problems) more effectively when they are allowed to generate rationales. However, a good tutoring system should not just generate solutions, but should also generate explanations and should be able to correct and guide students. We show that providing a code scratchpad improves performance on each tutoring step with a gradeschool mathematics dataset. On these tutoring tasks, GPT-3 models provided with a code scratchpad significantly outperform those given only a language scratchpad (77.7{\%} vs 48.7{\%} cumulative accuracy).",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Improving Mathematics Tutoring With A Code Scratchpad](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.2) (Upadhyay et al., BEA 2023)
ACL
- Shriyash Upadhyay, Etan Ginsberg, and Chris Callison-Burch. 2023. Improving Mathematics Tutoring With A Code Scratchpad. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), pages 20–28, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.