Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling

Angel Daza, Anette Frank


Abstract
We propose a Cross-lingual Encoder-Decoder model that simultaneously translates and generates sentences with Semantic Role Labeling annotations in a resource-poor target language. Unlike annotation projection techniques, our model does not need parallel data during inference time. Our approach can be applied in monolingual, multilingual and cross-lingual settings and is able to produce dependency-based and span-based SRL annotations. We benchmark the labeling performance of our model in different monolingual and multilingual settings using well-known SRL datasets. We then train our model in a cross-lingual setting to generate new SRL labeled data. Finally, we measure the effectiveness of our method by using the generated data to augment the training basis for resource-poor languages and perform manual evaluation to show that it produces high-quality sentences and assigns accurate semantic role annotations. Our proposed architecture offers a flexible method for leveraging SRL data in multiple languages.
Anthology ID:
D19-1056
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
603–615
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-1056
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1056
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Angel Daza and Anette Frank. 2019. Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 603–615, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling (Daza & Frank, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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Code
 Heidelberg-NLP/SRL-S2S