Transferring Semantic Roles Using Translation and Syntactic Information

Maryam Aminian, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Mona Diab


Abstract
Our paper addresses the problem of annotation projection for semantic role labeling for resource-poor languages using supervised annotations from a resource-rich language through parallel data. We propose a transfer method that employs information from source and target syntactic dependencies as well as word alignment density to improve the quality of an iterative bootstrapping method. Our experiments yield a 3.5 absolute labeled F-score improvement over a standard annotation projection method.
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I17-2003
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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13–19
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Maryam Aminian, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, and Mona Diab. 2017. Transferring Semantic Roles Using Translation and Syntactic Information. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 13–19, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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