Learning Cross-lingual Distributed Logical Representations for Semantic Parsing

Yanyan Zou, Wei Lu


Abstract
With the development of several multilingual datasets used for semantic parsing, recent research efforts have looked into the problem of learning semantic parsers in a multilingual setup. However, how to improve the performance of a monolingual semantic parser for a specific language by leveraging data annotated in different languages remains a research question that is under-explored. In this work, we present a study to show how learning distributed representations of the logical forms from data annotated in different languages can be used for improving the performance of a monolingual semantic parser. We extend two existing monolingual semantic parsers to incorporate such cross-lingual distributed logical representations as features. Experiments show that our proposed approach is able to yield improved semantic parsing results on the standard multilingual GeoQuery dataset.
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P18-2107
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Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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673–679
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https://aclanthology.org/P18-2107
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10.18653/v1/P18-2107
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Yanyan Zou and Wei Lu. 2018. Learning Cross-lingual Distributed Logical Representations for Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 673–679, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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