Using syntax for the semantic representation of sentences

Iskandar Boucharenc, Eve Sauvage, Thomas Gerald, Julien Tourille, Sabrina Campano, Cyril Grouin, Sophie Rosset


Abstract
Deep learning methods in natural language processing often rely on statistical methods to tokenize texts before vectorization. This segmentation produces lexical subunits offering great flexibility. However, the reuse of identical tokens across words with different meanings can favor representations based on surface form rather than on linguistic information, especially semantics. This mismatch between semantics and surface form can lead to undesirable effects in language processing. To limit the influence of form on the semantics of vector representations, we propose an intermediate representation based on syntactic parsing that is more compact and more faithful to word meaning.
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2026.slide-1.15
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Erhard Hinrichs, Joakim Nivre, Petya Osenova, James Pustejovsky, Claus Zinn
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SLiDE | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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169–179
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https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-slide-15
DOI:
10.63317/4gtinxarm3dd
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Iskandar Boucharenc, Eve Sauvage, Thomas Gerald, Julien Tourille, Sabrina Campano, Cyril Grouin, and Sophie Rosset. 2026. Using syntax for the semantic representation of sentences. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE), pages 169–179, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Using syntax for the semantic representation of sentences (Boucharenc et al., SLiDE 2026)
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