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Generating Senses and RoLes: An End-to-End Model for Dependency- and Span-based Semantic Role Labeling

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Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Main Track. Pages 3786-3793.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/521

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Abstract

Despite the recent great success of the sequence-to-sequence paradigm in Natural Language Processing, the majority of current studies in Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) still frame the problem as a sequence labeling task.

In this paper we go against the flow and propose GSRL (Generating Senses and RoLes), the first sequence-to-sequence model for end-to-end SRL.

Our approach benefits from recently-proposed decoder-side pretraining techniques to generate both sense and role labels for all the predicates in an input sentence at once, in an end-to-end fashion.

Evaluated on standard gold benchmarks, GSRL achieves state-of-the-art results in both dependency- and span-based English SRL, proving empirically that our simple generation-based model can learn to produce complex predicate-argument structures.

Finally, we propose a framework for evaluating the robustness of an SRL model in a variety of synthetic low-resource scenarios which can aid human annotators in the creation of better, more diverse, and more challenging gold datasets.

We release GSRL at github.com/SapienzaNLP/gsrl.

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