Revisiting Syntax-Based Approach in Negation Scope Resolution

Asahi Yoshida, Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara


Abstract
Negation scope resolution is the process of detecting the negated part of a sentence. Unlike the syntax-based approach employed in previous research, state-of-the-art methods performed better without the explicit use of syntactic structure. This work revisits the syntax-based approach and re-evaluates the effectiveness of syntactic structure in negation scope resolution. We replace the parser utilized in the prior works with state-of-the-art parsers and modify the syntax-based heuristic rules. The experimental results demonstrate that the simple modifications enhance the performance of the prior syntax-based method to the same level as state-of-the-art end-to-end neural-based methods.
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2023.starsem-1.3
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Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Alexis Palmer, Jose Camacho-collados
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*SEM
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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18–23
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.3
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Asahi Yoshida, Yoshihide Kato, and Shigeki Matsubara. 2023. Revisiting Syntax-Based Approach in Negation Scope Resolution. In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), pages 18–23, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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