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title = "Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, To Be, Or Not To Be",
author = "He, Shexia and
Li, Zuchao and
Zhao, Hai and
Bai, Hongxiao",
editor = "Gurevych, Iryna and
Miyao, Yusuke",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P18-1192",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P18-1192",
pages = "2061--2071",
abstract = "Semantic role labeling (SRL) is dedicated to recognizing the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Previous studies have shown syntactic information has a remarkable contribution to SRL performance. However, such perception was challenged by a few recent neural SRL models which give impressive performance without a syntactic backbone. This paper intends to quantify the importance of syntactic information to dependency SRL in deep learning framework. We propose an enhanced argument labeling model companying with an extended korder argument pruning algorithm for effectively exploiting syntactic information. Our model achieves state-of-the-art results on the CoNLL-2008, 2009 benchmarks for both English and Chinese, showing the quantitative significance of syntax to neural SRL together with a thorough empirical survey over existing models.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, To Be, Or Not To Be](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1192) (He et al., ACL 2018)
ACL
- Shexia He, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao, and Hongxiao Bai. 2018. Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, To Be, Or Not To Be. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2061–2071, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.