Abstract
This tutorial describes semantic role labelling (SRL), the task of mapping text to shallow semantic representations of eventualities and their participants. The tutorial introduces the SRL task and discusses recent research directions related to the task. The audience of this tutorial will learn about the linguistic background and motivation for semantic roles, and also about a range of computational models for this task, from early approaches to the current state-of-the-art. We will further discuss recently proposed variations to the traditional SRL task, including topics such as semantic proto-role labeling.We also cover techniques for reducing required annotation effort, such as methods exploiting unlabeled corpora (semi-supervised and unsupervised techniques), model adaptation across languages and domains, and methods for crowdsourcing semantic role annotation (e.g., question-answer driven SRL). Methods based on different machine learning paradigms, including neural networks, generative Bayesian models, graph-based algorithms and bootstrapping style techniques.Beyond sentence-level SRL, we discuss work that involves semantic roles in discourse. In particular, we cover data sets and models related to the task of identifying implicit roles and linking them to discourse antecedents. We introduce different approaches to this task from the literature, including models based on coreference resolution, centering, and selectional preferences. We also review how new insights gained through them can be useful for the traditional SRL task.- Anthology ID:
- D17-3004
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Alexandra Birch, Nathan Schneider
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
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- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D17-3004
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Diego Marcheggiani, Michael Roth, Ivan Titov, and Benjamin Van Durme. 2017. Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Semantic Role Labeling (Marcheggiani et al., EMNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp22-frontmatter/D17-3004.pdf