ERIC Number: ED537867
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Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 146
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ISBN: ISBN-978-1-2671-4081-4
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A CCG-Based Method for Training a Semantic Role Labeler in the Absence of Explicit Syntactic Training Data
Boxwell, Stephen A.
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University
Treebanks are a necessary prerequisite for many NLP tasks, including, but not limited to, semantic role labeling. For many languages, however, treebanks are either nonexistent or too small to be useful. Time-critical applications may require rapid deployment of natural language software for a new critical language--much faster than the development time of a traditional treebank. This dissertation describes a method for generating a treebank and training syntactic and semantic models using only semantic training information--that is, no human-annotated syntactic training data whatsoever. This will greatly increase the speed of development of natural language tools for new critical languages in exchange for a modest drop in overall accuracy. Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) in concert with Propbank semantic role annotations allows us to accurately predict lexical categories in combination with a partially hidden Markov model. By training the Berkeley parser on our generated syntactic data, we can achieve SRL performance of 65.5% without using a treebank, as opposed to 74% using the same feature set with gold-standard data. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Training, Programming, Computer System Design, Information Technology, Computer Software, Data, Computational Linguistics, Markov Processes
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Language: English
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