A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language

Abstract

We present the first probabilistic model to capture all levels of the Minsky Frame structure, with the goal of corpus-based induction of scenario definitions. Our model unifies prior efforts in discourse-level modeling with that of Fillmore's related notion of frame, as captured in sentence-level, FrameNet semantic parses; as part of this, we resurrect the coupling among Minsky's frames, Schank's scripts and Fillmore's frames, as originally laid out by those authors. Empirically, our approach yields improved scenario representations, reflected quantitatively in lower surprisal and more coherent latent scenarios.

Cite

Text

Ferraro and Van Durme. "A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.10328

Markdown

[Ferraro and Van Durme. "A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2016/ferraro2016aaai-unified/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.10328

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ferraro2016aaai-unified,
  title     = {{A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language}},
  author    = {Ferraro, Francis and Van Durme, Benjamin},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {2601-2607},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.10328},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2016/ferraro2016aaai-unified/}
}