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.
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C16-1040
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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409–420
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https://aclanthology.org/C16-1040
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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.
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Deeper syntax for better semantic parsing (Michalon et al., COLING 2016)
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