Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases

Jonathan Herzig, Jonathan Berant


Abstract
A fundamental challenge in developing semantic parsers is the paucity of strong supervision in the form of language utterances annotated with logical form. In this paper, we propose to exploit structural regularities in language in different domains, and train semantic parsers over multiple knowledge-bases (KBs), while sharing information across datasets. We find that we can substantially improve parsing accuracy by training a single sequence-to-sequence model over multiple KBs, when providing an encoding of the domain at decoding time. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Overnight dataset (containing eight domains), improves performance over a single KB baseline from 75.6% to 79.6%, while obtaining a 7x reduction in the number of model parameters.
Anthology ID:
P17-2098
Volume:
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
623–628
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P17-2098
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-2098
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Jonathan Herzig and Jonathan Berant. 2017. Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 623–628, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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