Learning Joint Semantic Parsers from Disjoint Data

Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, Swabha Swayamdipta, Noah A. Smith


Abstract
We present a new approach to learning a semantic parser from multiple datasets, even when the target semantic formalisms are drastically different and the underlying corpora do not overlap. We handle such “disjoint” data by treating annotations for unobserved formalisms as latent structured variables. Building on state-of-the-art baselines, we show improvements both in frame-semantic parsing and semantic dependency parsing by modeling them jointly.
Anthology ID:
N18-1135
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1492–1502
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1135
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1135
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Cite (ACL):
Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, Swabha Swayamdipta, and Noah A. Smith. 2018. Learning Joint Semantic Parsers from Disjoint Data. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 1492–1502, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Learning Joint Semantic Parsers from Disjoint Data (Peng et al., NAACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1135.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/N18-1135.mp4
Code
 Noahs-ARK/NeurboParser +  additional community code
Data
FrameNet