Exploiting Numerical-Contextual Knowledge to Improve Numerical Reasoning in Question Answering (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing numerical reasoning models overly rely on parametric knowledge at inference time . previous studies show that understanding numbers in text improves numerical reasoning accuracy . |
| Approach: | They propose a numerical reasoning model that leverages parametric knowledge to alleviate this over-reliance on parametric information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves numerical reasoning accuracy and performance in DROP. |
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