@inproceedings{opitz-frank-2019-argument,
    title = "An Argument-Marker Model for Syntax-Agnostic Proto-Role Labeling",
    author = "Opitz, Juri  and
      Frank, Anette",
    editor = "Mihalcea, Rada  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Ku, Lun-Wei  and
      Evang, Kilian  and
      Poria, Soujanya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*{SEM} 2019)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/S19-1025/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-1025",
    pages = "224--234",
    abstract = "Semantic proto-role labeling (SPRL) is an alternative to semantic role labeling (SRL) that moves beyond a categorical definition of roles, following Dowty`s feature-based view of proto-roles. This theory determines agenthood vs. patienthood based on a participant`s instantiation of more or less typical agent vs. patient properties, such as, for example, volition in an event. To perform SPRL, we develop an ensemble of hierarchical models with self-attention and concurrently learned predicate-argument markers. Our method is competitive with the state-of-the art, overall outperforming previous work in two formulations of the task (multi-label and multi-variate Likert scale pre- diction). In contrast to previous work, our results do not depend on gold argument heads derived from supplementary gold tree banks."
}