UTD-SpRL: a joint approach to spatial role labeling

  • Authors:
  • Kirk Roberts;Sanda M. Harabagiu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2012
  • SemEval-2012 task 3: spatial role labeling

    SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

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Abstract

We present a joint approach for recognizing spatial roles in SemEval-2012 Task 3. Candidate spatial relations, in the form of triples, are heuristically extracted from sentences with high recall. The joint classification of spatial roles is then cast as a binary classification over the candidates. This joint approach allows for a rich feature set based on the complete relation instead of individual relation arguments. Our best official submission achieves an F1-measure of 0.573 on relation recognition, best in the task and outperforming the previous best result on the same data set (0.500).