Transition-based Semantic Role Labeling with Pointer Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10023v1
• Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 08:38:44 GMT
• Title: Transition-based Semantic Role Labeling with Pointer Networks
• Authors: Daniel Fern\'andez-Gonz\'alez
• Abstract summary: We propose the first transition-based SRL approach that is capable of completely processing an input sentence in a single left-to-right pass. Thanks to our implementation based on Pointer Networks, full SRL can be accurately and efficiently done in $O(n2)$, achieving the best performance to date on the majority of languages from the CoNLL-2009 shared task.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Semantic role labeling (SRL) focuses on recognizing the predicate-argument structure of a sentence and plays a critical role in many natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and question answering. Practically all available methods do not perform full SRL, since they rely on pre-identified predicates, and most of them follow a pipeline strategy, using specific models for undertaking one or several SRL subtasks. In addition, previous approaches have a strong dependence on syntactic information to achieve state-of-the-art performance, despite being syntactic trees equally hard to produce. These simplifications and requirements make the majority of SRL systems impractical for real-world applications. In this article, we propose the first transition-based SRL approach that is capable of completely processing an input sentence in a single left-to-right pass, with neither leveraging syntactic information nor resorting to additional modules. Thanks to our implementation based on Pointer Networks, full SRL can be accurately and efficiently done in $O(n^2)$, achieving the best performance to date on the majority of languages from the CoNLL-2009 shared task.

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