Title
Improving Portuguese Semantic Role Labeling with Transformers and Transfer Learning
Abstract
The Natural Language Processing task of determining "Who did what to whom" is called Semantic Role Labeling. For English, recent methods based on Transformer models have allowed for major improvements in this task over the previous state of the art. However, for low resource languages, like Portuguese, currently available semantic role labeling models are hindered by scarce training data. In this paper, we explore a model architecture with only a pre-trained Transformer-based model, a linear layer, softmax and Viterbi decoding. We substantially improve the state-of-the-art performance in Portuguese by over 15 F1. Additionally, we improve semantic role labeling results in Portuguese corpora by exploiting cross-lingual transfer learning using multilingual pre-trained models, and transfer learning from dependency parsing in Portuguese, evaluating the various proposed approaches empirically.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/DSAA53316.2021.9564238
2021 IEEE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA SCIENCE AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS (DSAA)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sofia Oliveira100.34
Daniel Loureiro214.07
Alípio Jorge374973.03