Putting Semantics into Semantic Roles

James Allen, Choh Man Teng


Abstract
While there have been many proposals for theories of semantic roles over the years, these models are mostly justified by intuition and the only evaluation methods have been inter-annotator agreement. We explore three different ideas for providing more rigorous theories of semantic roles. These ideas give rise to more objective criteria for designing role sets, and lend themselves to some experimental evaluation. We illustrate the discussion by examining the semantic roles in TRIPS.
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S18-2028
Volume:
Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Malvina Nissim, Jonathan Berant, Alessandro Lenci
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*SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
235–244
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-2028
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-2028
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James Allen and Choh Man Teng. 2018. Putting Semantics into Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 235–244, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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