Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification

Tianyu Jiang, Ellen Riloff


Abstract
Frame identification is one of the key challenges for frame-semantic parsing. The goal of this task is to determine which frame best captures the meaning of a target word or phrase in a sentence. We present a new model for frame identification that uses a pre-trained transformer model to generate representations for frames and lexical units (senses) using their formal definitions in FrameNet. Our frame identification model assesses the suitability of a frame for a target word in a sentence based on the semantic coherence of their meanings. We evaluate our model on three data sets and show that it consistently achieves better performance than previous systems.
Anthology ID:
2021.eacl-main.206
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
Month:
April
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Paola Merlo, Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty
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EACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2429–2434
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.206
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.206
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Cite (ACL):
Tianyu Jiang and Ellen Riloff. 2021. Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 2429–2434, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification (Jiang & Riloff, EACL 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.206.pdf
Code
 tyjiangu/fido
Data
FrameNet