Transition-based semantic role labeling using predicate argument clustering

  • Authors:
  • Jinho D. Choi;Martha Palmer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Colorado at Boulder;University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Venue:
  • RELMS '11 Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper suggests two ways of improving semantic role labeling (SRL). First, we introduce a novel transition-based SRL algorithm that gives a quite different approach to SRL. Our algorithm is inspired by shift-reduce parsing and brings the advantages of the transition-based approach to SRL. Second, we present a self-learning clustering technique that effectively improves labeling accuracy in the test domain. For better generalization of the statistical models, we cluster verb predicates by comparing their predicate argument structures and apply the clustering information to the final labeling decisions. All approaches are evaluated on the CoNLL'09 English data. The new algorithm shows comparable results to another state-of-the-art system. The clustering technique improves labeling accuracy for both in-domain and out-of-domain tasks.