Multilingual Semantic Parsing And Code-Switching

Long Duong, Hadi Afshar, Dominique Estival, Glen Pink, Philip Cohen, Mark Johnson

Abstract
Extending semantic parsing systems to new domains and languages is a highly expensive, time-consuming process, so making effective use of existing resources is critical. In this paper, we describe a transfer learning method using crosslingual word embeddings in a sequence-to-sequence model. On the NLmaps corpus, our approach achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 85.7% for English. Most importantly, we observed a consistent improvement for German compared with several baseline domain adaptation techniques. As a by-product of this approach, our models that are trained on a combination of English and German utterances perform reasonably well on code-switching utterances which contain a mixture of English and German, even though the training data does not contain any such. As far as we know, this is the first study of code-switching in semantic parsing. We manually constructed the set of code-switching test utterances for the NLmaps corpus and achieve 78.3% accuracy on this dataset.
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K17-1038
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Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017)
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August
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2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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CoNLL
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SIGNLL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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379–389
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https://aclanthology.org/K17-1038
DOI:
10.18653/v1/K17-1038
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Long Duong, Hadi Afshar, Dominique Estival, Glen Pink, Philip Cohen, and Mark Johnson. 2017. Multilingual Semantic Parsing And Code-Switching. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017), pages 379–389, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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