Ancient Chinese texts have no sentence boundaries and punctuation. Adding modern Chinese punctuation to theses texts requires expertise, time and efforts. Automatic sentence segmentation and punctuation is considered as a basic task for Ancient Chinese processing, but there is no shared task to evaluate the performances of different systems. This paper presents the results of the first ancient Chinese sentence segmentation and punctuation bakeoff, which is held at the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) 2024. The contest uses metrics for detailed evaluations of 4 genres of unpublished texts with 11 punctuation types. Six teams submitted 32 running results. In the closed modality, the participants are only allowed to use the training data, the highest obtained F1 scores are respectively 88.47% and 75.29% in sentence segmentation and sentence punctuation. The perfermances on the unseen data is 10 percent lower than the published common data, which means there is still space for further improvement. The large language models outperform the traditional models, but LLM changes the original characters around 1-2%, due to over-generation. Thus, post-processing is needed to keep the text consistancy.

“汉语被动句是一种重要的语言现象。本文采用BIO结合索引的标注方法,对被动句中的被动结构进行了细粒度标注,提出了一种基于BERT-wwm-ext预训练模型和双仿射注意力机制的CRF序列标注模型,实现对汉语被动句中内部结构的自动解析,F1值达到97.31%。本文提出的模型具有良好的泛化性,实验证明,利用本文模型的被动结构解析结果对CAMR图后处理,能有效提高CAMR被动句解析任务的性能。”

“Abstract Meaning Representation has emerged as a prominent area of research in sentence-levelsemantic parsing within the field of natural language processing in recent years. Substantialprogress has been made in various NLP subtasks through the application of AMR. This paperpresents the third Chinese Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing Evaluation, held as part ofthe Technical Evaluation Task Workshop at the 22nd Chinese Computational Linguistics Confer-ence. The evaluation was specifically tailored for the Chinese and utilized the Align-smatch met-ric as the standard evaluation criterion. Building upon high-quality semantic annotation schemesand annotated corpora, this evaluation introduced a new test set comprising interrogative sen-tences for comprehensive evaluation. The results of the evaluation, as measured by the F-score,indicate notable performance achievements. The top-performing team attained a score of 0.8137in the closed test and 0.8261 in the open test, respectively, using the Align-smatch metric. No-tably, the leading result surpassed the SOTA performance at CoNLL 2020 by 3.64 percentagepoints when evaluated using the MRP metric. Further analysis revealed that this significantprogress primarily stemmed from improved relation prediction between concepts. However, thechallenge of effectively utilizing semantic relation alignments remains an area that requires fur-ther enhancement.”

This paper presents the results of the First Ancient Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Bakeoff (EvaHan), which was held at the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) 2022, in the context of the 13th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022). We give the motivation for having an international shared contest, as well as the data and tracks. The contest is consisted of two modalities, closed and open. In the closed modality, the participants are only allowed to use the training data, obtained the highest F1 score of 96.03% and 92.05% in word segmentation and POS tagging. In the open modality, the participants can use whatever resource they have, with the highest F1 score of 96.34% and 92.56% in word segmentation and POS tagging. The scores on the blind test dataset decrease around 3 points, which shows that the out-of-vocabulary words still are the bottleneck for lexical analyzers.

Abstract Meaning Representation is a sentence-level meaning representation, which abstracts the meaning of sentences into a rooted acyclic directed graph. With the continuous expansion of Chinese AMR corpus, more and more scholars have developed parsing systems to automatically parse sentences into Chinese AMR. However, the current parsers can’t deal with concept alignment and relation alignment, let alone the evaluation methods for AMR parsing. Therefore, to make up for the vacancy of Chinese AMR parsing evaluation methods, based on AMR evaluation metric smatch, we have improved the algorithm of generating triples so that to make it compatible with concept alignment and relation alignment. Finally, we obtain a new integrity metric align-smatch for paring evaluation. A comparative research then was conducted on 20 manually annotated AMR and gold AMR, with the result that align-smatch works well in alignments and more robust in evaluating arcs. We also put forward some fine-grained metric for evaluating concept alignment, relation alignment and implicit concepts, in order to further measure parsers’ performance in subtasks.

“汉语中的被动句根据有无被动标记词可分为有标记被动句和无标记被动句。由于其形态构成复杂多样,给自然语言理解带来很大困难,因此实现汉语被动句的自动识别对自然语言处理下游任务具有重要意义。本文构建了一个被动句语料库,提出了一个融合词性和动词论元框架信息的PC-BERT-CNN模型,对汉语被动句进行自动识别。实验结果表明,本文提出的模型能够准确地识别汉语被动句,其中有标记被动句识别F1值达到98.77%,无标记被动句识别F1值达到96.72%。”

Automated essay scoring (AES) involves the prediction of a score relating to the writing quality of an essay. Most existing works in AES utilize regression objectives or ranking objectives respectively. However, the two types of methods are highly complementary. To this end, in this paper we take inspiration from contrastive learning and propose a novel unified Neural Pairwise Contrastive Regression (NPCR) model in which both objectives are optimized simultaneously as a single loss. Specifically, we first design a neural pairwise ranking model to guarantee the global ranking order in a large list of essays, and then we further extend this pairwise ranking model to predict the relative scores between an input essay and several reference essays. Additionally, a multi-sample voting strategy is employed for inference. We use Quadratic Weighted Kappa to evaluate our model on the public Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate that NPCR outperforms previous methods by a large margin, achieving the state-of-the-art average performance for the AES task.

连动句是形如“NP+VP1+VP2”的句子,句中含有两个或两个以上的动词(或动词结构)且动词的施事为同一对象。相同结构的连动句可以表示多种不同的语义关系。本文基于前人对连动句中VP1和VP2之间的语义关系分类,标注了连动句语义关系数据集,基于神经网络完成了对连动句语义关系的识别。该方法将连动句语义识别任务进行分解,基于BERT进行编码,利用BiLSTM-CRF先识别出连动句中连动词(VP)及其主语(NP),再基于融合连动词信息的编码,利用BiLSTM-Attention对连动词进行关系判别,实验结果验证了所提方法的有效性。

汉语词语的离合现象是汉语中一种词语可分可合的特殊现象。本文采用字符级序列标注方法解决二字动词离合现象的自动识别问题,以避免中文分词及词性标注的错误传递,节省制定匹配规则与特征模板的人工开支。在训练过程中微调BERT中文预训练模型,获取面向目标任务的字符向量表示,并引入掩码机制对模型隐藏离用法中分离的词语,减轻词语本身对识别结果的影响,强化中间插入成分的学习,并对前后语素采用不同的掩码以强调其出现顺序,进而使模型具备了识别复杂及偶发性离用法的能力。为获得含有上下文信息的句子表达,将原始的句子表达与采用掩码的句子表达分别输入两个不同参数的BiLSTM层进行训练,最后采用CRF算法捕捉句子标签序列的依赖关系。本文提出的BERT MASK + 2BiLSTMs + CRF模型比现有最优的离合词识别模型提高了2.85%的F1值。

The study of predicate frame is an important topic for semantic analysis. Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is an emerging graph based semantic representation of a sentence. Since core semantic roles defined in the predicate lexicon compose the backbone in an AMR graph, the construction of the lexicon becomes the key issue. The existing lexicons blur senses and frames of predicates, which needs to be refined to meet the tasks like word sense disambiguation and event extraction. This paper introduces the on-going project on constructing a novel predicate lexicon for Chinese AMR corpus. The new lexicon includes 14,389 senses and 10,800 frames of 8,470 words. As some senses can be aligned to more than one frame, and vice versa, we found the alignment between senses is not just one frame per sense. Explicit analysis is given for multiple aligned relations, which proves the necessity of the proposed lexicon for AMR corpus, and supplies real data for linguistic theoretical studies.

对话分析是智能客服、聊天机器人等自然语言对话应用的基础课题,而对话语料与常规书面语料有较大差异,存在大量的称谓、情感短语、省略、语序颠倒、冗余等复杂现象,对句法和语义分析器的影响较大,对话自动分析的准确率相对书面语料一直不高。其主要原因在于对多轮对话缺乏严整的形式化描写方式,不利于后续的分析计算。因此,本文在梳理国内外针对对话的标注体系和语料库的基础上,提出了基于抽象语义表示的篇章级多轮对话标注体系。具体探讨了了篇章级别的语义结构标注方法,给出了词语和概念关系的对齐方案,针对称谓语和情感短语增加了相应的语义关系和概念,调整了表示主观情感词语的论元结构,并对对话中一些特殊现象进行了规定,设计了人工标注平台,为大规模的多轮对话语料库标注与计算研究奠定基础。

疑问句的句法语义分析在搜索引擎、信息抽取和问答系统等领域有着广泛的应用。计算语言学多采取问句分类和句法分析相结合的方式来处理疑问句,精度和效率还不理想。而疑问句的语言学研究成果丰富,比如疑问句的结构类型、疑问焦点和疑问代词的非疑问用法等,但缺乏系统的形式化表示。本文致力于解决这一难题,采用基于图结构的汉语句子语义的整体表示方法—中文抽象语义表示(CAMR)来标注疑问句的语义结构,将疑问焦点和整句语义一体化表示出来。然后选取了宾州中文树库CTB8.0网络媒体语料、小学语文教材以及《小王子》中文译本的2万句语料中共计2071句疑问句,统计了疑问句的主要特点。统计表明,各种疑问代词都可以通过疑问概念amr-unknown和语义关系的组合来表示,能够完整地表示出疑问句的关键信息、疑问焦点和语义结构。最后,根据疑问代词所关联的语义关系,统计了疑问焦点的概率分布,其中原因、修饰语和受事的占比最高,分别占26.53%、16.73%以及16.44%。基于抽象语义表示的疑问句标注与分析可以为汉语疑问句研究提供基础理论与资源。

连动句是具有连动结构的句子,是汉语中的特殊句法结构,在现代汉语中十分常见且使用频繁。连动句语法结构和语义关系都很复杂,在识别中存在许多问题,对此本文针对连动句的识别问题进行了研究,提出了一种基于神经网络的连动句识别方法。本方法分两步:第一步,运用简单的规则对语料进行预处理;第二步,用文本分类的思想,使用BERT编码,利用多层CNN与BiLSTM模型联合提取特征进行分类,进而完成连动句识别任务。在人工标注的语料上进行实验,实验结果达到92.71%的准确率,F1值为87.41%。

作为信息抽取的一项核心子任务,实体关系抽取对于知识图谱、智能问答、语义搜索等自然语言处理应用都十分重要。关系抽取在于从非结构化文本中自动地识别实体之间具有的某种语义关系。该文聚焦句子级别的关系抽取研究,介绍用于关系抽取的主要数据集并对现有的技术作了阐述,主要分为:有监督的关系抽取、远程监督的关系抽取和实体关系联合抽取。我们对比用于该任务的各种模型,分析它们的贡献与缺 陷。最后介绍中文实体关系抽取的研究现状和方法。

兼语结构是汉语中常见的一种动词结构,由述宾短语与主谓短语共享兼语,结构复杂,给句法分析造成困难,因此兼语语料库构建及识别工作对于语义解析及下游任务都具有重要意义。但现存兼语语料库较少,面向中文AMR标注体系的兼语语料库构建仍处于空白阶段。针对这一现状,本文总结了一套兼语语料库标注规范,并构建了一定数量面向中文AMR标注体系的兼语语料库。基于构建的语料库,采用基于字符的神经网络模型识别兼语结构,并对识别结果以及未来的改进方向进行分析总结。

Existing works have proved that using law articles as external knowledge can improve the performance of the Legal Judgment Prediction. However, they do not fully use law article information and most of the current work is only for single label samples. In this paper, we propose a Law Article Element-aware Multi-representation Model (LEMM), which can make full use of law article information and can be used for multi-label samples. The model uses the labeled elements of law articles to extract fact description features from multiple angles. It generates multiple representations of a fact for classification. Every label has a law-aware fact representation to encode more information. To capture the dependencies between law articles, the model also introduces a self-attention mechanism between multiple representations. Compared with baseline models like TopJudge, this model improves the accuracy of 5.84%, the macro F1 of 6.42%, and the micro F1 of 4.28%.

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a meaning representation framework in which the meaning of a full sentence is represented as a single-rooted, acyclic, directed graph. In this article, we describe an on-going project to build a Chinese AMR (CAMR) corpus, which currently includes 10,149 sentences from the newsgroup and weblog portion of the Chinese TreeBank (CTB). We describe the annotation specifications for the CAMR corpus, which follow the annotation principles of English AMR but make adaptations where needed to accommodate the linguistic facts of Chinese. The CAMR specifications also include a systematic treatment of sentence-internal discourse relations. One significant change we have made to the AMR annotation methodology is the inclusion of the alignment between word tokens in the sentence and the concepts/relations in the CAMR annotation to make it easier for automatic parsers to model the correspondence between a sentence and its meaning representation. We develop an annotation tool for CAMR, and the inter-agreement as measured by the Smatch score between the two annotators is 0.83, indicating reliable annotation. We also present some quantitative analysis of the CAMR corpus. 46.71% of the AMRs of the sentences are non-tree graphs. Moreover, the AMR of 88.95% of the sentences has concepts inferred from the context of the sentence but do not correspond to a specific word.

Ellipsis is very common in language. It’s necessary for natural language processing to restore the elided elements in a sentence. However, there’s only a few corpora annotating the ellipsis, which draws back the automatic detection and recovery of the ellipsis. This paper introduces the annotation of ellipsis in Chinese sentences, using a novel graph-based representation Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), which has a good mechanism to restore the elided elements manually. We annotate 5,000 sentences selected from Chinese TreeBank (CTB). We find that 54.98% of sentences have ellipses. 92% of the ellipses are restored by copying the antecedents’ concepts. and 12.9% of them are the new added concepts. In addition, we find that the elided element is a word or phrase in most cases, but sometimes only the head of a phrase or parts of a phrase, which is rather hard for the automatic recovery of ellipsis.