{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/i-know-what-you-want-semantic-learning-for","title":"Explicit Contextual Semantics for Text Comprehension","arxiv_id":"1809.02794","date":"2018-09-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zhuosheng Zhang","Yuwei Wu","Zuchao Li","Hai Zhao"],"abstract":"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.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02794v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02794v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-reading-comprehension","task_name":"Machine Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"natural-language-understanding","task_name":"Natural Language Understanding"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"semantic-role-labeling","task_name":"Semantic Role Labeling"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/natural-language-inference-on-snli","task":"Natural Language Inference","dataset":"SNLI","model":"SJRC (BERT-Large +SRL)","rank_in_archive_order":11,"of":98,"metrics":{"% Test Accuracy":"91.3","% Train Accuracy":"95.7","Parameters":"308m"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/natural-language-inference-on-snli","task":"Natural Language Inference","dataset":"SNLI","model":"SLRC","rank_in_archive_order":23,"of":98,"metrics":{"% Test Accuracy":"89.1","% Train Accuracy":"89.1","Parameters":"6.1m"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1809.02794","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}