Discourse Representation Structure Parsing

Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata


Abstract
We introduce an open-domain neural semantic parser which generates formal meaning representations in the style of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT; Kamp and Reyle 1993). We propose a method which transforms Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) to trees and develop a structure-aware model which decomposes the decoding process into three stages: basic DRS structure prediction, condition prediction (i.e., predicates and relations), and referent prediction (i.e., variables). Experimental results on the Groningen Meaning Bank (GMB) show that our model outperforms competitive baselines by a wide margin.
Anthology ID:
P18-1040
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
429–439
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1040
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1040
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Cite (ACL):
Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 429–439, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Discourse Representation Structure Parsing (Liu et al., ACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1040.pdf
Note:
 P18-1040.Notes.pdf
Poster:
 P18-1040.Poster.pdf
Code
 EdinburghNLP/EncDecDRSparsing
Data
Groningen Meaning Bank