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Dependency or Span, End-to-End Uniform Semantic Role Labeling

16 Jan 2019arXiv:1901.05280archive 2025-07-28

Zuchao Li, Shexia He, Hai Zhao, Yiqing Zhang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Xi Zhou, Xiang Zhou

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to discover the predicateargument structure of a sentence. End-to-end SRL without syntactic input has received great attention. However, most of them focus on either span-based or dependency-based semantic representation form and only show specific model optimization respectively. Meanwhile, handling these two SRL tasks uniformly was less successful. This paper presents an end-to-end model for both dependency and span SRL with a unified argument representation to deal with two different types of argument annotations in a uniform fashion. Furthermore, we jointly predict all predicates and arguments, especially including long-term ignored predicate identification subtask. Our single model achieves new state-of-the-art results on both span (CoNLL 2005, 2012) and dependency (CoNLL 2008, 2009) SRL benchmarks.

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Model OptimizationSemantic Role LabelingSentence

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semantic Role Labeling CoNLL 2005 Li et al. (2019) (Ensemble) F1 87.7 #9 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Role Labeling CoNLL 2005 Li et al. (2019) + ELMo F1 86.3 #11 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Role Labeling CoNLL 2005 Li et al. (2019) F1 83.0 #14 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Role Labeling OntoNotes Li et al. F1 86.0 #11 of 17 Archive leaderboard report

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