A Joint Sequential and Relational Model for Frame-Semantic Parsing

Bishan Yang, Tom Mitchell


Abstract
We introduce a new method for frame-semantic parsing that significantly improves the prior state of the art. Our model leverages the advantages of a deep bidirectional LSTM network which predicts semantic role labels word by word and a relational network which predicts semantic roles for individual text expressions in relation to a predicate. The two networks are integrated into a single model via knowledge distillation, and a unified graphical model is employed to jointly decode frames and semantic roles during inference. Experiments on the standard FrameNet data show that our model significantly outperforms existing neural and non-neural approaches, achieving a 5.7 F1 gain over the current state of the art, for full frame structure extraction.
Anthology ID:
D17-1128
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Venue:
EMNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1247–1256
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1128
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1128
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Bishan Yang and Tom Mitchell. 2017. A Joint Sequential and Relational Model for Frame-Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1247–1256, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Joint Sequential and Relational Model for Frame-Semantic Parsing (Yang & Mitchell, EMNLP 2017)
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Data
FrameNet