Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the annotation projection of semantic units in a practical setting. Previous approaches have focused on using parallel corpora for semantic transfer. We evaluate an alternative approach using loosely parallel corpora that does not require the corpora to be exact translations of each other. We developed a method that transfers semantic annotations from one language to another using sentences aligned by entities, and we extended it to include alignments by entity-like linguistic units. We conducted our experiments on a large scale using the English, Swedish, and French language editions of Wikipedia. Our results show that the annotation projection using entities in combination with loosely parallel corpora provides a viable approach to extending previous attempts. In addition, it allows the generation of proposition banks upon which semantic parsers can be trained.- Anthology ID:
- C16-1096
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1007–1017
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-1096
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Peter Exner, Marcus Klang, and Pierre Nugues. 2016. Multilingual Supervision of Semantic Annotation. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1007–1017, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multilingual Supervision of Semantic Annotation (Exner et al., COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/C16-1096.pdf
- Data
- FrameNet