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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

Spoken language recognition (SLR) is the task of automatically identifying the language present in a speech signal. Existing SLR models are either too computationally expensive or too large to run effectively on devices with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin , Franck Dernoncourt , Justin Salamon

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 presents a novel self-supervised learning method for handling conversational documents consisting of transcribed text of human-to-human conversations. One of the key technologies for understanding conversational documents is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ryo Masumura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

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

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) 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

Implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR) is a challenging but crucial task in discourse analysis. Most existing methods train multiple models to predict multi-level labels independently, while ignoring the dependence between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Changxing Wu , Liuwen Cao , Yubin Ge , Yang Liu , Min Zhang , Jinsong Su

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

Recognizing multiple labels of images is a practical and challenging task, and significant progress has been made by searching semantic-aware regions and modeling label dependency. However, current methods cannot locate the semantic regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Tianshui Chen , Muxin Xu , Xiaolu Hui , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

Task-oriented dialogue generation is challenging since the underlying knowledge is often dynamic and effectively incorporating knowledge into the learning process is hard. It is particularly challenging to generate both human-like and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Ricardo Usbeck , Jens Lehmann

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) utilize natural language interactions and dialogue history to infer user preferences and provide accurate recommendations. Due to the limited conversation context and background knowledge, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zhangchi Qiu , Ye Tao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

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 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

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

In this paper, we present our studies and experiments carried out for the task 1 of the Challenge and Workshop on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM), which focuses on advancing multilingual conversational speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lorenzo Concina , Jordi Luque , Alessio Brutti , Marco Matassoni , Yuchen Zhang

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a task to recognize all the predicate-argument pairs of a sentence, which has been in a performance improvement bottleneck after a series of latest works were presented. This paper proposes a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Chaoyu Guan , Yuhao Cheng , Hai Zhao

Visual dialog is a task of answering a sequence of questions grounded in an image using the previous dialog history as context. In this paper, we study how to address two fundamental challenges for this task: (1) reasoning over underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Gi-Cheon Kang , Junseok Park , Hwaran Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Jin-Hwa Kim

Recent dialogue systems rely on turn-based spoken interactions, requiring accurate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Errors in ASR can significantly impact downstream dialogue tasks. To address this, using dialogue context from user and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Wonjun Lee , San Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Conversational context understanding aims to recognize the real intention of user from the conversation history, which is critical for building the dialogue system. However, the multi-turn conversation understanding in open domain is still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shuangyong Song , Chao Wang , Qianqian Xie , Xinxing Zu , Huan Chen , Haiqing Chen