Challenge: Existing approaches to generate mathematical equations from natural language ignore parallel or dependent relations between math expressions.
Approach: They propose to integrate tree structure into the expression-level generation and advocate an expression tree decoding strategy.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline methods for generating mathematical equations from natural language.

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