Syntax-aware Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Supertags
Jungo Kasai, Dan Friedman, Robert Frank, Dragomir Radev, Owen Rambow
Abstract
We introduce a new syntax-aware model for dependency-based semantic role labeling that outperforms syntax-agnostic models for English and Spanish. We use a BiLSTM to tag the text with supertags extracted from dependency parses, and we feed these supertags, along with words and parts of speech, into a deep highway BiLSTM for semantic role labeling. Our model combines the strengths of earlier models that performed SRL on the basis of a full dependency parse with more recent models that use no syntactic information at all. Our local and non-ensemble model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the CoNLL 09 English and Spanish datasets. SRL models benefit from syntactic information, and we show that supertagging is a simple, powerful, and robust way to incorporate syntax into a neural SRL system.- Anthology ID:
- N19-1075
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 701–709
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N19-1075
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N19-1075
- Cite (ACL):
- Jungo Kasai, Dan Friedman, Robert Frank, Dragomir Radev, and Owen Rambow. 2019. Syntax-aware Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Supertags. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 701–709, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Syntax-aware Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Supertags (Kasai et al., NAACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/N19-1075.pdf
- Code
- jungokasai/stagging_srl