Semantic Frames and Visual Scenes: Learning Semantic Role Inventories from Image and Video Descriptions

Ekaterina Shutova, Andreas Wundsam, Helen Yannakoudakis


Abstract
Frame-semantic parsing and semantic role labelling, that aim to automatically assign semantic roles to arguments of verbs in a sentence, have become an active strand of research in NLP. However, to date these methods have relied on a predefined inventory of semantic roles. In this paper, we present a method to automatically learn argument role inventories for verbs from large corpora of text, images and videos. We evaluate the method against manually constructed role inventories in FrameNet and show that the visual model outperforms the language-only model and operates with a high precision.
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S17-1018
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Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Nancy Ide, Aurélie Herbelot, Lluís Màrquez
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*SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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149–154
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-1018
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-1018
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Ekaterina Shutova, Andreas Wundsam, and Helen Yannakoudakis. 2017. Semantic Frames and Visual Scenes: Learning Semantic Role Inventories from Image and Video Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 149–154, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Semantic Frames and Visual Scenes: Learning Semantic Role Inventories from Image and Video Descriptions (Shutova et al., *SEM 2017)
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