Title
Semi-supervised semantic role labeling via structural alignment
Abstract
Large-scale annotated corpora are a prerequisite to developing high-performance semantic role labeling systems. Unfortunately, such corpora are expensive to produce, limited in size, and may not be representative. Our work aims to reduce the annotation effort involved in creating resources for semantic role labeling via semi-supervised learning. The key idea of our approach is to find novel instances for classifier training based on their similarity to manually labeled seed instances. The underlying assumption is that sentences that are similar in their lexical material and syntactic structure are likely to share a frame semantic analysis. We formalize the detection of similar sentences and the projection of role annotations as a graph alignment problem, which we solve exactly using integer linear programming. Experimental results on semantic role labeling show that the automatic annotations produced by our method improve performance over using hand-labeled instances alone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1162/COLI_a_00087
Computational Linguistics
Keywords
Field
DocType
frame semantic analysis,semi-supervised semantic role,graph alignment problem,annotation effort,role annotation,automatic annotation,high-performance semantic role,structural alignment,semantic role,classifier training,similar sentence,semi supervised learning,semantic role labeling,structure alignment
Semantic similarity,Graph,Structural alignment,Annotation,Information retrieval,Computer science,Integer programming,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Semantic role labeling,Semantic computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
1
0891-2017
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.68
44
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hagen Fürstenau153320.43
Mirella Lapata25973369.52