Semantic parsing on freebase from question-answer pairs

Jonathan Berant, Andrew Chou, Roy Frostig, Percy Liang

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Abstract

In this paper, we train a semantic parser that scales up to Freebase. Instead of relying on annotated logical forms, which is especially expensive to obtain at large scale, we learn from question-answer pairs. The main challenge in this setting is narrowing down the huge number of possible logical predicates for a given question. We tackle this problem in two ways: First, we build a coarse mapping from phrases to predicates using a knowledge base and a large text corpus. Second, we use a bridging operation to generate additional predicates based on neighboring predicates. On the dataset of Cai and Yates (2013), despite not having annotated logical forms, our system outperforms their state-of-the-art parser. Additionally, we collected a more realistic and challenging dataset of question-answer pairs and improves over a natural baseline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1533-1544
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284978
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2013 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 18 Oct 201321 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period18/10/1321/10/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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