Improving Implicit Semantic Role Labeling by Predicting Semantic Frame Arguments

Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens


Abstract
Implicit semantic role labeling (iSRL) is the task of predicting the semantic roles of a predicate that do not appear as explicit arguments, but rather regard common sense knowledge or are mentioned earlier in the discourse. We introduce an approach to iSRL based on a predictive recurrent neural semantic frame model (PRNSFM) that uses a large unannotated corpus to learn the probability of a sequence of semantic arguments given a predicate. We leverage the sequence probabilities predicted by the PRNSFM to estimate selectional preferences for predicates and their arguments. On the NomBank iSRL test set, our approach improves state-of-the-art performance on implicit semantic role labeling with less reliance than prior work on manually constructed language resources.
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I17-1010
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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90–99
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https://aclanthology.org/I17-1010
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Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Steven Bethard, and Marie-Francine Moens. 2017. Improving Implicit Semantic Role Labeling by Predicting Semantic Frame Arguments. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 90–99, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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