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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

Do unsupervised methods for learning rich, contextualized token representations obviate the need for explicit modeling of linguistic structure in neural network models for semantic role labeling (SRL)? We address this question by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Emma Strubell , Andrew McCallum

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

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

The latest developments in neural semantic role labeling (SRL) have shown great performance improvements with both the dependency and span formalisms/styles. Although the two styles share many similarities in linguistic meaning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao , Junru Zhou , Kevin Parnow , Shexia He

One of the common traits of past and present approaches for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is that they rely upon discrete labels drawn from a predefined linguistic inventory to classify predicate senses and their arguments. However, we argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Simone Conia , Edoardo Barba , Alessandro Scirè , Roberto Navigli

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

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

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

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

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) 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) is believed to be a crucial step towards natural language understanding and has been widely studied. Recent years, end-to-end SRL with recurrent neural networks (RNN) has gained increasing attention. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Zhixing Tan , Mingxuan Wang , Jun Xie , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

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

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

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

This is a work-in-progress report, which aims to share preliminary results of a novel sequence-to-sequence schema for dependency parsing that relies on a combination of a BiLSTM and two Pointer Networks (Vinyals et al., 2015), in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Matteo Grella

This paper introduces a novel model for semantic role labeling that makes use of neural sequence modeling techniques. Our approach is motivated by the observation that complex syntactic structures and related phenomena, such as nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Michael Roth , Mirella Lapata

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