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Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims at elaborating the meaning of a sentence by forming a predicate-argument structure. Recent researches depicted that the effective use of syntax can improve SRL performance. However, syntax is a complicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Kashif Munir , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li

Semantic role labeling (SRL) focuses on recognizing the predicate-argument structure of a sentence and plays a critical role in many natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and question answering. Practically all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Daniel Fernández-González

This paper studies semantic parsing for interlanguage (L2), taking semantic role labeling (SRL) as a case task and learner Chinese as a case language. We first manually annotate the semantic roles for a set of learner texts to derive a gold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Zi Lin , Yuguang Duan , Yuanyuan Zhao , Weiwei Sun , Xiaojun Wan

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a crucial task of natural language processing (NLP). Although generative decoder-based large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various NLP tasks, they still lag behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xinxin Li , Huiyao Chen , Chengjun Liu , Jing Li , Meishan Zhang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is an NLP task involving the assignment of predicate arguments to types, called semantic roles. Though research on SRL has primarily focused on verbal predicates and many resources available for SRL provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yanpeng Zhao , Ivan Titov

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a central natural language processing task for understanding predicate-argument structures within texts and enabling downstream applications. Despite extensive research, comprehensive surveys that critically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Huiyao Chen , Meishan Zhang , Jing Li , Lilja Øvrelid , Jan Hajič , Hao Fei , Min Zhang

We propose a Cross-lingual Encoder-Decoder model that simultaneously translates and generates sentences with Semantic Role Labeling annotations in a resource-poor target language. Unlike annotation projection techniques, our model does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Angel Daza , Anette Frank

We present a simple and accurate span-based model for semantic role labeling (SRL). Our model directly takes into account all possible argument spans and scores them for each label. At decoding time, we greedily select higher scoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Hiroki Ouchi , Hiroyuki Shindo , Yuji Matsumoto

Current state-of-the-art semantic role labeling (SRL) uses a deep neural network with no explicit linguistic features. However, prior work has shown that gold syntax trees can dramatically improve SRL decoding, suggesting the possibility of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Emma Strubell , Patrick Verga , Daniel Andor , David Weiss , Andrew McCallum

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a fundamental yet challenging task in the NLP community. Recent works of SRL mainly fall into two lines: 1) BIO-based; 2) span-based. Despite ubiquity, they share some intrinsic drawbacks of not considering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yu Zhang , Qingrong Xia , Shilin Zhou , Yong Jiang , Guohong Fu , Min Zhang

We explore a novel approach for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) by casting it as a sequence-to-sequence process. We employ an attention-based model enriched with a copying mechanism to ensure faithful regeneration of the input sequence, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Angel Daza , Anette Frank

End-to-end semantic role labeling (SRL) has been received increasing interest. It performs the two subtasks of SRL: predicate identification and argument role labeling, jointly. Recent work is mostly focused on graph-based neural models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Hao Fei , Meishan Zhang , Bobo Li , Donghong Ji

Previous approaches to multilingual semantic dependency parsing treat languages independently, without exploiting the similarities between semantic structures across languages. We experiment with a new approach where we combine resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Phoebe Mulcaire , Swabha Swayamdipta , Noah Smith

Neural language models (LMs) are typically trained using only lexical features, such as surface forms of words. In this paper, we argue this deprives the LM of crucial syntactic signals that can be detected at high confidence using existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Duncan Blythe , Alan Akbik , Roland Vollgraf

While syntactic dependency annotations concentrate on the surface or functional structure of a sentence, semantic dependency annotations aim to capture between-word relationships that are more closely related to the meaning of a sentence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Timothy Dozat , Christopher D. Manning

With the advent of FrameNet and PropBank, many semantic role labeling (SRL) systems have been proposed in English. Although research on Japanese predicate argument structure analysis (PASA) has been conducted, most studies focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Tomohiro Nakamura , Tomoya Miyashita , Soh Ohara

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is the process of detecting the predicate-argument structure of each predicate in a sentence. SRL plays a crucial role as a pre-processing step in many NLP applications such as topic and concept extraction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Saeideh Niksirat Aghdam , Sayyed Ali Hossayni , Erfan Khedersolh Sadeh , Nasim Khozouei , Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli

A range of studies have concluded that neural word prediction models can distinguish grammatical from ungrammatical sentences with high accuracy. However, these studies are based primarily on monolingual evidence from English. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aaron Mueller , Garrett Nicolai , Panayiota Petrou-Zeniou , Natalia Talmina , Tal Linzen

This paper introduces and analyzes a battery of inference models for the problem of semantic role labeling: one based on constraint satisfaction, and several strategies that model the inference as a meta-learning problem using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 M. Surdeanu , L. Marquez , X. Carreras , P. R. Comas

There are many different ways in which external information might be used in an NLP task. This paper investigates how external syntactic information can be used most effectively in the Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) task. We evaluate three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yufei Wang , Mark Johnson , Stephen Wan , Yifang Sun , Wei Wang