@inproceedings{sikos-pado-2019-frame,
    title = "Frame Identification as Categorization: Exemplars vs Prototypes in Embeddingland",
    author = "Sikos, Jennifer  and
      Pad{\'o}, Sebastian",
    editor = "Dobnik, Simon  and
      Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios  and
      Demberg, Vera",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers",
    month = may,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Gothenburg, Sweden",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W19-0425/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-0425",
    pages = "295--306",
    abstract = "Categorization is a central capability of human cognition, and a number of theories have been developed to account for properties of categorization. Even though many tasks in semantics also involve categorization of some kind, theories of categorization do not play a major role in contemporary research in computational linguistics. This paper follows the idea that embedding-based models of semantics lend themselves well to being formulated in terms of classical categorization theories. The benefit is a space of model families that enables (a) the formulation of hypotheses about the impact of major design decisions, and (b) a transparent assessment of these decisions. We instantiate this idea on the task of frame-semantic frame identification. We define four models that cross two design variables: (a) the choice of prototype vs. exemplar categorization, corresponding to different degrees of generalization applied to the input; and (b) the presence vs. absence of a fine-tuning step, corresponding to generic vs. task-adaptive categorization. We find that for frame identification, generalization and task-adaptive categorization both yield substantial benefits. Our prototype-based, fine-tuned model, which combines the best choices for these variables, establishes a new state of the art in frame identification."
}