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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 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

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

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 the task of identifying predicates and labeling argument spans with semantic roles. Even though most semantic-role formalisms are built upon constituent syntax and only syntactic constituents can be labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Diego Marcheggiani , Ivan Titov

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

Shallow syntax provides an approximation of phrase-syntactic structure of sentences; it can be produced with high accuracy, and is computationally cheap to obtain. We investigate the role of shallow syntax-aware representations for NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Swabha Swayamdipta , Matthew Peters , Brendan Roof , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

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

As for semantic role labeling (SRL) task, when it comes to utilizing parsing information, both traditional methods and recent recurrent neural network (RNN) based methods use the feature engineering way. In this paper, we propose Syntax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Feng Qian , Lei Sha , Baobao Chang , Lu-chen Liu , Ming Zhang

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

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

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

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

Recent models have shown that incorporating syntactic knowledge into the semantic role labelling (SRL) task leads to a significant improvement. In this paper, we propose Syntax-aware Graph-to-Graph Transformer (SynG2G-Tr) model, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Alireza Mohammadshahi , James Henderson

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 role labeling (SRL) -- identifying the semantic relationships between a predicate and other constituents in the same sentence -- is a well-studied task in natural language understanding (NLU). However, many of these relationships…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 William Gantt

Semantic role labelling (SRL) is a task in natural language processing which detects and classifies the semantic arguments associated with the predicates of a sentence. It is an important step towards understanding the meaning of a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thai-Hoang Pham , Xuan-Khoai Pham , Phuong Le-Hong

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) 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