Semi-supervised learning for semantic parsing using support vector machines

  • Authors:
  • Rohit J. Kate;Raymond J. Mooney

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '07 Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a method for utilizing unan-notated sentences to improve a semantic parser which maps natural language (NL) sentences into their formal meaning representations (MRs). Given NL sentences annotated with their MRs, the initial supervised semantic parser learns the mapping by training Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers for every production in the MR grammar. Our new method applies the learned semantic parser to the unannotated sentences and collects unla-beled examples which are then used to retrain the classifiers using a variant of transductive SVMs. Experimental results show the improvements obtained over the purely supervised parser, particularly when the annotated training set is small.