Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing
Olivier Michalon, Corentin Ribeyre, Marie Candito, Alexis Nasr
Abstract
Syntax plays an important role in the task of predicting the semantic structure of a sentence. But syntactic phenomena such as alternations, control and raising tend to obfuscate the relation between syntax and semantics. In this paper we predict the semantic structure of a sentence using a deeper syntax than what is usually done. This deep syntactic representation abstracts away from purely syntactic phenomena and proposes a structural organization of the sentence that is closer to the semantic representation. Experiments conducted on a French corpus annotated with semantic frames showed that a semantic parser reaches better performances with such a deep syntactic input.- Anthology ID:
- C16-1040
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 409–420
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-1040
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Olivier Michalon, Corentin Ribeyre, Marie Candito, and Alexis Nasr. 2016. Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 409–420, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing (Michalon et al., COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/C16-1040.pdf
- Data
- FrameNet