In plain words: A system labeling who did what to whom adds dependency-parse hints to its attention step, so words use sentence grammar when judging each verb's roles. With good-quality parses it beats two strong baselines, setting the best reported score on the standard Chinese test set.
Abstract
As a fundamental NLP task, semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to discover the semantic roles for each predicate within one sentence. This paper investigates how to incorporate syntactic knowledge into the SRL task effectively. We present different approaches of encoding the syntactic information derived from dependency trees of different quality and representations; we propose a syntax-enhanced self-attention model and compare it with other two strong baseline methods; and we conduct experiments with newly published deep contextualized word representations as well. The experiment results demonstrate that with proper incorporation of the high quality syntactic information, our model achieves a new state-of-the-art performance for the Chinese SRL task on the CoNLL-2009 dataset.
Yue Zhang, Rui Wang, Luo Si
arXiv:1910.11204 · cs.CL · submitted Oct 24, 2019
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