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Explicit Contextual Semantics for Text Comprehension
Zhuosheng Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao
Who did what to whom is a major focus in natural language understanding, which is right the aim of semantic role labeling (SRL) task. Despite of sharing a lot of processing characteristics and even task purpose, it is surprisingly that jointly considering these two related tasks was never formally reported in previous work. Thus this paper makes the first attempt to let SRL enhance text comprehension and inference through specifying verbal predicates and their corresponding semantic roles. In terms of deep learning models, our embeddings are enhanced by explicit contextual semantic role labels for more fine-grained semantics. We show that the salient labels can be conveniently added to existing models and significantly improve deep learning models in challenging text comprehension tasks. Extensive experiments on benchmark machine reading comprehension and inference datasets verify that the proposed semantic learning helps our system reach new state-of-the-art over strong baselines which have been enhanced by well pretrained language models from the latest progress.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SJRC (BERT-Large +SRL) | % Test Accuracy | 91.3 | #11 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SJRC (BERT-Large +SRL) | % Train Accuracy | 95.7 | #11 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SJRC (BERT-Large +SRL) | Parameters | 308m | #11 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SLRC | % Test Accuracy | 89.1 | #23 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SLRC | % Train Accuracy | 89.1 | #23 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Natural Language Inference | SNLI | SLRC | Parameters | 6.1m | #23 of 98 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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