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QANom: Question-Answer driven SRL for Nominalizations

Ayal Klein, Jonathan Mamou, Valentina Pyatkin, Daniela Stepanov, Hangfeng He, Dan Roth, Luke Zettlemoyer, Ido Dagan

Abstract

We propose a new semantic scheme for capturing predicate-argument relations for nominalizations, termed QANom. This scheme extends the QA-SRL formalism (He et al., 2015), modeling the relations between nominalizations and their arguments via natural language question-answer pairs. We construct the first QANom dataset using controlled crowdsourcing, analyze its quality and compare it to expertly annotated nominal-SRL annotations, as well as to other QA-driven annotations. In addition, we train a baseline QANom parser for identifying nominalizations and labeling their arguments with question-answer pairs. Finally, we demonstrate the extrinsic utility of our annotations for downstream tasks using both indirect supervision and zero-shot settings.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{klein-etal-2020-qanom,
    title = "{QAN}om: Question-Answer driven {SRL} for Nominalizations",
    author = "Klein, Ayal  and
      Mamou, Jonathan  and
      Pyatkin, Valentina  and
      Stepanov, Daniela  and
      He, Hangfeng  and
      Roth, Dan  and
      Zettlemoyer, Luke  and
      Dagan, Ido",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.274/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.274",
    pages = "3069--3083"
}