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In:The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
[Natural Language Processing 14] 2021
► pp. 263–280

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Chapter 10
Semantic role labeling

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Published online: 26 November 2021
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Abstract
We investigate the feasibility of automatic semantic role labeling (SRL) using Swedish FrameNet (SweFN). In the first part of the chapter, we describe a baseline system using a traditional division into segmentation and labeling steps. These subsystems are implemented as separate machine learning models, and we explore a wide range of syntactic and lexical features for these models. In the second part, we turn to the question of how the frame-to-frame relations defined in FrameNet allow us to use the annotated examples more effectively. The cross-frame generalization methods reduce the number of errors made by the labeling classifier by 27%. For previously unseen frames, the reduction is even more significant: 50%.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Swedish FrameNet
  • 3.Semantic role labeling with SweFN
    • 3.1Segmentation and labeling classifiers
  • 4.Experiments
    • 4.1Experimental data and preprocessing
    • 4.2Cross-validation over sentences
    • 4.3Cross-frame role label generalization
    • 4.4Analysis of features
    • 4.5Cross-validation over frames
    • 4.6Increasing classifier robustness by adding cluster features
    • 4.7The effect of syntactic parser choice
    • 4.8Evaluation in the medical domain
    • 4.9Summary of results for the baseline systems
  • 5.Using the FrameNet relational structure to improve the semantic role labeler
    • 5.1A classifier using non-atomic semantic role labels
    • 5.2Generalization methods
  • 6.Experiments in cross-frame generalization
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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