Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles

Abstract

This article considers the task of automatically inducing role-semantic annotations in the FrameNet paradigm for new languages. We propose a general framework that is based on annotation projection, phrased as a graph optimization problem. It is relatively inexpensive and has the potential to reduce the human effort involved in creating role-semantic resources. Within this framework, we present projection models that exploit lexical and syntactic information. We provide an experimental evaluation on an English-German parallel corpus which demonstrates the feasibility of inducing high-precision German semantic role annotation both for manually and automatically annotated English data.

Cite

Text

Padó and Lapata. "Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2009. doi:10.1613/JAIR.2863

Markdown

[Padó and Lapata. "Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2009.](https://mlanthology.org/jair/2009/pado2009jair-crosslingual/) doi:10.1613/JAIR.2863

BibTeX

@article{pado2009jair-crosslingual,
  title     = {{Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles}},
  author    = {Padó, Sebastian and Lapata, Mirella},
  journal   = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  year      = {2009},
  pages     = {307-340},
  doi       = {10.1613/JAIR.2863},
  volume    = {36},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/jair/2009/pado2009jair-crosslingual/}
}