Incorporating Syntax and Frame Semantics in Neural Network for Machine Reading Comprehension

Shaoru Guo, Yong Guan, Ru Li, Xiaoli Li, Hongye Tan


Abstract
Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is one of the most critical yet challenging tasks in natural language understanding(NLU), where both syntax and semantics information of text are essential components for text understanding. It is surprising that jointly considering syntax and semantics in neural networks was never formally reported in literature. This paper makes the first attempt by proposing a novel Syntax and Frame Semantics model for Machine Reading Comprehension (SS-MRC), which takes full advantage of syntax and frame semantics to get richer text representation. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate that SS-MRC performs better than ten state-of-the-art technologies on machine reading comprehension task.
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2020.coling-main.237
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December
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2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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2635–2641
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.237
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.237
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Shaoru Guo, Yong Guan, Ru Li, Xiaoli Li, and Hongye Tan. 2020. Incorporating Syntax and Frame Semantics in Neural Network for Machine Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2635–2641, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Incorporating Syntax and Frame Semantics in Neural Network for Machine Reading Comprehension (Guo et al., COLING 2020)
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