@inproceedings{herzig-berant-2017-neural,
title = "Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases",
author = "Herzig, Jonathan and
Berant, Jonathan",
editor = "Barzilay, Regina and
Kan, Min-Yen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P17-2098/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-2098",
pages = "623--628",
abstract = "A fundamental challenge in developing semantic parsers is the paucity of strong supervision in the form of language utterances annotated with logical form. In this paper, we propose to exploit structural regularities in language in different domains, and train semantic parsers over multiple knowledge-bases (KBs), while sharing information across datasets. We find that we can substantially improve parsing accuracy by training a single sequence-to-sequence model over multiple KBs, when providing an encoding of the domain at decoding time. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Overnight dataset (containing eight domains), improves performance over a single KB baseline from 75.6\% to 79.6\%, while obtaining a 7x reduction in the number of model parameters."
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Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases](https://aclanthology.org/P17-2098/) (Herzig & Berant, ACL 2017)
ACL
- Jonathan Herzig and Jonathan Berant. 2017. Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 623–628, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.