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Multi-Task Semantic Dependency Parsing with Policy Gradient for Learning Easy-First Strategies

Computation and Language 2019-06-05 v1

Abstract

In Semantic Dependency Parsing (SDP), semantic relations form directed acyclic graphs, rather than trees. We propose a new iterative predicate selection (IPS) algorithm for SDP. Our IPS algorithm combines the graph-based and transition-based parsing approaches in order to handle multiple semantic head words. We train the IPS model using a combination of multi-task learning and task-specific policy gradient training. Trained this way, IPS achieves a new state of the art on the SemEval 2015 Task 18 datasets. Furthermore, we observe that policy gradient training learns an easy-first strategy.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.01239,
  title  = {Multi-Task Semantic Dependency Parsing with Policy Gradient for Learning Easy-First Strategies},
  author = {Shuhei Kurita and Anders Søgaard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01239},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

ACL2019 Long accepted. 9 pages for the paper and the additional 2 pages for the supplemental material

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