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title = "Semantic Role Labeling Meets Definition Modeling: Using Natural Language to Describe Predicate-Argument Structures",
author = "Conia, Simone and
Barba, Edoardo and
Scir{\`e}, Alessandro and
Navigli, Roberto",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.313",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.313",
pages = "4253--4270",
abstract = "One of the common traits of past and present approaches for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is that they rely upon discrete labels drawn from a predefined linguistic inventory to classify predicate senses and their arguments. However, we argue this need not be the case. In this paper, we present an approach that leverages Definition Modeling to introduce a generalized formulation of SRL as the task of describing predicate-argument structures using natural language definitions instead of discrete labels. Our novel formulation takes a first step towards placing interpretability and flexibility foremost, and yet our experiments and analyses on PropBank-style and FrameNet-style, dependency-based and span-based SRL also demonstrate that a flexible model with an interpretable output does not necessarily come at the expense of performance. We release our software for research purposes at \url{https://github.com/SapienzaNLP/dsrl}.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Semantic Role Labeling Meets Definition Modeling: Using Natural Language to Describe Predicate-Argument Structures
%A Conia, Simone
%A Barba, Edoardo
%A Scirè, Alessandro
%A Navigli, Roberto
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F conia-etal-2022-semantic
%X One of the common traits of past and present approaches for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is that they rely upon discrete labels drawn from a predefined linguistic inventory to classify predicate senses and their arguments. However, we argue this need not be the case. In this paper, we present an approach that leverages Definition Modeling to introduce a generalized formulation of SRL as the task of describing predicate-argument structures using natural language definitions instead of discrete labels. Our novel formulation takes a first step towards placing interpretability and flexibility foremost, and yet our experiments and analyses on PropBank-style and FrameNet-style, dependency-based and span-based SRL also demonstrate that a flexible model with an interpretable output does not necessarily come at the expense of performance. We release our software for research purposes at https://github.com/SapienzaNLP/dsrl.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.313
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.313
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.313
%P 4253-4270
Markdown (Informal)
[Semantic Role Labeling Meets Definition Modeling: Using Natural Language to Describe Predicate-Argument Structures](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.313) (Conia et al., Findings 2022)
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