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Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Semantic Parsing with Graph-to-Sequence Model

Computation and Language 2018-08-24 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Existing neural semantic parsers mainly utilize a sequence encoder, i.e., a sequential LSTM, to extract word order features while neglecting other valuable syntactic information such as dependency graph or constituent trees. In this paper, we first propose to use the \textit{syntactic graph} to represent three types of syntactic information, i.e., word order, dependency and constituency features. We further employ a graph-to-sequence model to encode the syntactic graph and decode a logical form. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that our model is comparable to the state-of-the-art on Jobs640, ATIS and Geo880. Experimental results on adversarial examples demonstrate the robustness of the model is also improved by encoding more syntactic information.

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@article{arxiv.1808.07624,
  title  = {Exploiting Rich Syntactic Information for Semantic Parsing with Graph-to-Sequence Model},
  author = {Kun Xu and Lingfei Wu and Zhiguo Wang and Mo Yu and Liwei Chen and Vadim Sheinin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07624},
  year   = {2018}
}

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