Collective semantic role labeling for tweets with clustering

  • Authors:
  • Xiaohua Liu;Kuan Li;Ming Zhou;Zhongyang Xiong

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China and Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Three
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

As tweets have become a comprehensive repository of fresh information, Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) for tweets has aroused great research interests because of its central role in a wide range of tweet related studies such as fine-grained information extraction, sentiment analysis and summarization. However, the fact that a tweet is often too short and informal to provide sufficient information poses a major challenge. To tackle this challenge, we propose a new method to collectively label similar tweets. The underlying idea is to exploit similar tweets to make up for the lack of information in a tweet. Specifically, similar tweets are first grouped together by clustering. Then for each cluster a two-stage labeling is conducted: One labeler conducts SRL to get statistical information, such as the predicate/argument/role triples that occur frequently, from its highly confidently labeled results; then in the second stage, another labeler performs SRL with such statistical information to refine the results. Experimental results on a human annotated dataset show that our approach remarkably improves SRL by 3.1% F1.