Two discourse driven language models for semantics

Haoruo Peng, Dan Roth

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Abstract

Natural language understanding often requires deep semantic knowledge. Expanding on previous proposals, we suggest that some important aspects of semantic knowledge can be modeled as a language model if done at an appropriate level of abstraction. We develop two distinct models that capture semantic frame chains and discourse information while abstracting over the specific mentions of predicates and entities. For each model, we investigate four implementations: a "standard" N-gram language model and three discriminatively trained "neural" language models that generate embeddings for semantic frames. The quality of the semantic language models (SemLM) is evaluated both intrinsically, using perplexity and a narrative cloze test and extrinsically - we show that our SemLM helps improve performance on semantic natural language processing tasks such as co-reference resolution and discourse parsing.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages290-300
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781510827585
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: Aug 7 2016Aug 12 2016

Publication series

Name54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers
Volume1

Other

Other54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period8/7/168/12/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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