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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

As a fundamental NLP task, semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to discover the semantic roles for each predicate within one sentence. This paper investigates how to incorporate syntactic knowledge into the SRL task effectively. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yue Zhang , Rui Wang , Luo Si

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

Recently, semantic role labeling (SRL) has earned a series of success with even higher performance improvements, which can be mainly attributed to syntactic integration and enhanced word representation. However, most of these efforts focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shexia He , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Modern state-of-the-art Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) methods rely on expressive sentence encoders (e.g., multi-layer LSTMs) but tend to model only local (if any) interactions between individual argument labeling decisions. This contrasts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Chunchuan Lyu , Shay B. Cohen , 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) 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

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 reduce the task of (span-based) PropBank-style semantic role labeling (SRL) to syntactic dependency parsing. Our approach is motivated by our empirical analysis that shows three common syntactic patterns account for over 98% of the SRL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tianze Shi , Igor Malioutov , Ozan İrsoy

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

The goal of semantic role labeling (SRL) is to discover the predicate-argument structure of a sentence, which plays a critical role in deep processing of natural language. This paper introduces simple yet effective auxiliary tags for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Zhuosheng Zhang , Shexia He , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

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

We introduce a new syntax-aware model for dependency-based semantic role labeling that outperforms syntax-agnostic models for English and Spanish. We use a BiLSTM to tag the text with supertags extracted from dependency parses, and we feed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Jungo Kasai , Dan Friedman , Robert Frank , Dragomir Radev , Owen Rambow

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 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

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

We introduce a simple and accurate neural model for dependency-based semantic role labeling. Our model predicts predicate-argument dependencies relying on states of a bidirectional LSTM encoder. The semantic role labeler achieves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Diego Marcheggiani , Anton Frolov , Ivan Titov

Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a crucial aspect of Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on identifying and interpreting subjective assessments in textual content. Syntactic parsing is useful in SA as it improves accuracy and provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Muhammad Imran , Olga Kellert , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

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) aims to discover the predicateargument structure of a sentence. End-to-end SRL without syntactic input has received great attention. However, most of them focus on either span-based or dependency-based semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Zuchao Li , Shexia He , Hai Zhao , Yiqing Zhang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Xi Zhou , Xiang Zhou
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