In plain words: A single network learns sentence structure and word meaning together, in both phrase-based and word-link forms, so each task's clues feed the other instead of training them separately. It matched or beat the best previous scores on standard parsing benchmarks.
Abstract
Both syntactic and semantic structures are key linguistic contextual clues, in which parsing the latter has been well shown beneficial from parsing the former. However, few works ever made an attempt to let semantic parsing help syntactic parsing. As linguistic representation formalisms, both syntax and semantics may be represented in either span (constituent/phrase) or dependency, on both of which joint learning was also seldom explored. In this paper, we propose a novel joint model of syntactic and semantic parsing on both span and dependency representations, which incorporates syntactic information effectively in the encoder of neural network and benefits from two representation formalisms in a uniform way. The experiments show that semantics and syntax can benefit each other by optimizing joint objectives. Our single model achieves new state-of-the-art or competitive results on both span and dependency semantic parsing on Propbank benchmarks and both dependency and constituent syntactic parsing on Penn Treebank.
Junru Zhou, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao
arXiv:1908.11522 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Aug 30, 2019 · updated Oct 6, 2020
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