Mining Logical Event Schemas From Pre-Trained Language Models

Lane Lawley, Lenhart Schubert


Abstract
We present NESL (the Neuro-Episodic Schema Learner), an event schema learning system that combines large language models, FrameNet parsing, a powerful logical representation of language, and a set of simple behavioral schemas meant to bootstrap the learning process. In lieu of a pre-made corpus of stories, our dataset is a continuous feed of “situation samples” from a pre-trained language model, which are then parsed into FrameNet frames, mapped into simple behavioral schemas, and combined and generalized into complex, hierarchical schemas for a variety of everyday scenarios. We show that careful sampling from the language model can help emphasize stereotypical properties of situations and de-emphasize irrelevant details, and that the resulting schemas specify situations more comprehensively than those learned by other systems.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-srw.25
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Samuel Louvan, Andrea Madotto, Brielen Madureira
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
332–345
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-srw.25
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-srw.25
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Cite (ACL):
Lane Lawley and Lenhart Schubert. 2022. Mining Logical Event Schemas From Pre-Trained Language Models. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 332–345, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Mining Logical Event Schemas From Pre-Trained Language Models (Lawley & Schubert, ACL 2022)
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Data
FrameNet