A Transition-based Parser for Unscoped Episodic Logical Forms

Gene Kim, Viet Duong, Xin Lu, Lenhart Schubert


Abstract
“Episodic Logic: Unscoped Logical Form” (EL-ULF) is a semantic representation capturing predicate-argument structure as well as more challenging aspects of language within the Episodic Logic formalism. We present the first learned approach for parsing sentences into ULFs, using a growing set of annotated examples. The results provide a strong baseline for future improvement. Our method learns a sequence-to-sequence model for predicting the transition action sequence within a modified cache transition system. We evaluate the efficacy of type grammar-based constraints, a word-to-symbol lexicon, and transition system state features in this task. Our system is available at https://github.com/genelkim/ulf-transition-parser. We also present the first official annotated ULF dataset at https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/gkim21/ulf/resources/.
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2021.iwcs-1.18
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
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June
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2021
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Groningen, The Netherlands (online)
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Sina Zarrieß, Johan Bos, Rik van Noord, Lasha Abzianidze
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IWCS
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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184–201
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Gene Kim, Viet Duong, Xin Lu, and Lenhart Schubert. 2021. A Transition-based Parser for Unscoped Episodic Logical Forms. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), pages 184–201, Groningen, The Netherlands (online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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