Beyond sentence-level semantic role labeling: linking argument structures in discourse

Semantic role labeling is traditionally viewed as a sentence-level task concerned with identifying semantic arguments that are overtly realized in a fairly local context (i.e., a clause or sentence). However, this local view potentially misses important information that can only be recovered if loca...

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Published in:Language Resources and Evaluation 2013-09, Vol.47 (3), p.695-721
Main Authors: Ruppenhofer, Josef, Lee-Goldman, Russell, Sporleder, Caroline, Morante, Roser
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annotations
Applied linguistics
Argument structure
Boundaries
British & Irish literature
Computational Linguistics
Computer Science
Context
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
English literature
Gold
Gold standard
Instantiation
Joining
Labelling
Language and Literature
Linguistics
Linking
Links
Marking
Original Paper
Predicate
Predicates
Referents
Semantic analysis
Semantic roles
Semantics
Sentence structure
Sentences
Social Sciences
Syntactical antecedents
Syntactics
Syntax
Tasks
Verbs
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Summary:Semantic role labeling is traditionally viewed as a sentence-level task concerned with identifying semantic arguments that are overtly realized in a fairly local context (i.e., a clause or sentence). However, this local view potentially misses important information that can only be recovered if local argument structures are linked across sentence boundaries. One important link concerns semantic arguments that remain locally unrealized (null instantiations) but can be inferred from the context. In this paper, we report on the SemEval 2010 Task-10 on "Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse", that addressed this problem. We discuss the corpus that was created for this task, which contains annotations on multiple levels: predicate argument structure (FrameNet and PropBank), null instantiations, and coreference. We also provide an analysis of the task and its difficulties.
ISSN:1574-020X
1572-8412
1574-0218
DOI:10.1007/s10579-012-9201-4