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ACL
2010
14 years 9 months ago
Starting from Scratch in Semantic Role Labeling
A fundamental step in sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to sentence constituents. To accomplish this, the listener must parse the sentence, find constituent...
Michael Connor, Yael Gertner, Cynthia Fisher, Dan ...
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
ACL
2000
15 years 23 days ago
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
e, the system labels constituents with either abstract semantic roles such as AGENT or PATIENT, or more domain-specific semantic roles such as SPEAKER, MESSAGE, and TOPIC. The syst...
Daniel Gildea, Daniel Jurafsky
NAACL
2003
15 years 23 days ago
Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines
In this paper, the automatic labeling of semantic roles in a sentence is considered as a chunking task. We define a semantic chunk as the sequence of words that fills a semantic...
Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward
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EMNLP
2006
15 years 24 days ago
Unsupervised Discovery of a Statistical Verb Lexicon
This paper demonstrates how unsupervised techniques can be used to learn models of deep linguistic structure. Determining the semantic roles of a verb's dependents is an impo...
Trond Grenager, Christopher D. Manning
EMNLP
2004
15 years 24 days ago
The Influence of Argument Structure on Semantic Role Assignment
We present a data and error analysis for semantic role labelling. In a first experiment, we build a generic statistical model for semantic role assignment in the FrameNet paradigm...
Sebastian Padó, Gemma Boleda
LREC
2008
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15 years 25 days ago
LIRICS Semantic Role Annotation: Design and Evaluation of a Set of Data Categories
In this paper we report on the analyses of alternative approaches to semantic role annotation (FrameNet (FrameNet, 2005), PropBank (Palmer et al., 2005) and VerbNet (Kipper, 2006)...
Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt
EMNLP
2008
15 years 25 days ago
Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy
In recent years, with the development of Chinese semantically annotated corpus, such as Chinese Proposition Bank and Normalization Bank, the Chinese semantic role labeling (SRL) t...
Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang
EMNLP
2008
15 years 25 days ago
Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank
We present a PropBank semantic role labeling system for English that is integrated with a dependency parser. To tackle the problem of joint syntactic
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
EMNLP
2007
15 years 26 days ago
Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering
Shallow semantic parsing, the automatic identification and labeling of sentential constituents, has recently received much attention. Our work examines whether semantic role info...
Dan Shen, Mirella Lapata