Abstract
Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is the task of labeling semantic arguments for marked semantic predicates. Semantic arguments and their predicates are related in various distinct manners, of which certain semantic arguments are a necessity while others serve as an auxiliary to their predicates. To consider such roles and relations of the arguments in the labeling order, we introduce iterative argument identification (IAI), which combines global decoding and iterative identification for the semantic arguments. In experiments, we first realize that the model with random argument labeling orders outperforms other heuristic orders such as the conventional left-to-right labeling order. Combined with simple reinforcement learning, the proposed model spontaneously learns the optimized labeling orders that are different from existing heuristic orders. The proposed model with the IAI algorithm achieves competitive or outperforming results from the existing models in the standard benchmark datasets of span-based SRL: CoNLL-2005 and CoNLL-2012.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.478
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5383–5397
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.478
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shuhei Kurita, Hiroki Ouchi, Kentaro Inui, and Satoshi Sekine. 2022. Iterative Span Selection: Self-Emergence of Resolving Orders in Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5383–5397, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Iterative Span Selection: Self-Emergence of Resolving Orders in Semantic Role Labeling (Kurita et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.coling-1.478.pdf