Semantic Role Labeling with the Swedish FrameNet

Richard Johansson, Karin Friberg Heppin, Dimitrios Kokkinakis


Abstract
We present the first results on semantic role labeling using the Swedish FrameNet, which is a lexical resource currently in development. Several aspects of the task are investigated, including the %design and selection of machine learning features, the effect of choice of syntactic parser, and the ability of the system to generalize to new frames and new genres. In addition, we evaluate two methods to make the role label classifier more robust: cross-frame generalization and cluster-based features. Although the small amount of training data limits the performance achievable at the moment, we reach promising results. In particular, the classifier that extracts the boundaries of arguments works well for new frames, which suggests that it already at this stage can be useful in a semi-automatic setting.
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L12-1241
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3697–3700
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Richard Johansson, Karin Friberg Heppin, and Dimitrios Kokkinakis. 2012. Semantic Role Labeling with the Swedish FrameNet. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3697–3700, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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