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Semantic role labeling (SRL) involves extracting propositions (i.e. predicates and their typed arguments) from natural language sentences. State-of-the-art SRL models rely on powerful encoders (e.g., LSTMs) and do not model non-local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Xinchi Chen , Chunchuan Lyu , Ivan Titov

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) provides an explicit representation of predicate-argument structure, capturing linguistically grounded relations such as who did what to whom. While recent NLP progress has been dominated by large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sangpil Youm , Leah Jones , Bonnie J. Dorr

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

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

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

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) aims at recognizing the predicate-argument structure of a sentence and can be decomposed into two subtasks: predicate disambiguation and argument labeling. Prior work deals with these two tasks independently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Nan Wang , Jiwei Li , Yuxian Meng , Xiaofei Sun , Han Qiu , Ziyao Wang , Guoyin Wang , Jun He

Neural models have shown several state-of-the-art performances on Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). However, the neural models require an immense amount of semantic-role corpora and are thus not well suited for low-resource languages or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Sanket Vaibhav Mehta , Jay Yoon Lee , Jaime Carbonell

Many efforts of research are devoted to semantic role labeling (SRL) which is crucial for natural language understanding. Supervised approaches have achieved impressing performances when large-scale corpora are available for resource-rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Hao Fei , Meishan Zhang , Donghong Ji

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is dedicated to recognizing the semantic predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Previous studies in terms of traditional models have shown syntactic information can make remarkable contributions to SRL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao , Shexia He , Jiaxun Cai

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

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) aims to extract the arguments for each predicate in an input sentence. Traditional SRL can fail to analyze dialogues because it only works on every single sentence, while ellipsis and anaphora frequently occur…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Kun Xu , Han Wu , Linfeng Song , Haisong Zhang , Linqi Song , Dong Yu

Semantic proto-role labeling (SPRL) is an alternative to semantic role labeling (SRL) that moves beyond a categorical definition of roles, following Dowty's feature-based view of proto-roles. This theory determines agenthood vs. patienthood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

Semantic role labeling (SRL) identifies the predicate-argument structure in a sentence. This task is usually accomplished in four steps: predicate identification, predicate sense disambiguation, argument identification, and argument…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ishan Jindal , Alexandre Rademaker , Khoi-Nguyen Tran , Huaiyu Zhu , Hiroshi Kanayama , Marina Danilevsky , Yunyao Li

Semantic role labeling (SRL), also known as shallow semantic parsing, is an important yet challenging task in NLP. Motivated by the close correlation between syntactic and semantic structures, traditional discrete-feature-based SRL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Qingrong Xia , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang , Meishan Zhang , Guohong Fu , Rui Wang , Luo Si

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is a Natural Language Processing task that enables the detection of events described in sentences and the participants of these events. For Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there are two studies recently concluded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Nathan Siegle Hartmann , Magali Sanches Duran , Sandra Maria Aluísio

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is the task of identifying the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. It is typically regarded as an important step in the standard NLP pipeline. As the semantic representations are closely related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Diego Marcheggiani , Ivan Titov

Although we have witnessed impressive progress in Semantic Role Labeling (SRL), most of the research in the area is carried out assuming that the majority of predicates are verbs. Conversely, predicates can also be expressed using other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Riccardo Orlando , Simone Conia , Roberto Navigli

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to identify the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Inspired by the strong correlation between syntax and semantics, previous works pay much attention to improve SRL performance on exploiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qingrong Xia , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang