Semantic Role Labeling from Chinese Speech via End-to-End Learning

Huiyao Chen, Xinxin Li, Meishan Zhang, Min Zhang

Abstract
Semantic Role Labeling (SRL), crucial for understanding semantic relationships in sentences, has traditionally focused on text-based input. However, the increasing use of voice assistants and the need for hands-free interaction have highlighted the importance of SRL from speech.SRL from speech can be accomplished via a two-step pipeline directly: transcribing speech to text via Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and then applying text-based SRL, which could lead to error propagation and loss of useful acoustic features.Addressing these challenges, we present the first end-to-end approach for SRL from speech, integrating ASR and SRL in a joint-learning framework, focusing on the Chinese language. By employing a Stright-Through Gumbel-Softmax module for connecting ASR and SRL models, it enables gradient back-propagation and joint optimization, enhancing robustness and effectiveness.Experiments on the Chinese Proposition Bank 1.0 (CPB1.0) and a newly annotated dataset AS-SRL based on AISHELL-1 demonstrate the superiority of the end-to-end model over traditional pipelines, with significantly improved performance.
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2024.findings-acl.527
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Huiyao Chen, Xinxin Li, Meishan Zhang, and Min Zhang. 2024. Semantic Role Labeling from Chinese Speech via End-to-End Learning. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 8898–8911, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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