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"abstract": "A number of studies have presented machine-learning approaches to semantic role labeling with availability of corpora such as FrameNet and PropBank. These corpora define the semantic roles of predicates for each frame independently. Thus, it is crucial for the machine-learning approach to generalize semantic roles across different frames, and to increase the size of training instances. This paper explores several criteria for generalizing semantic roles in FrameNet: role hierarchy, human-understandable descriptors of roles, semantic types of filler phrases, and mappings from FrameNet roles to thematic roles of VerbNet. We also propose feature functions that naturally combine and weight these criteria, based on the training data. The experimental result of the role classification shows 19.16% and 7.42% improvements in error reduction rate and macro-averaged F1 score, respectively. We also provide in-depth analyses of the proposed criteria.",
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"text": "PropBank defines a frame for each sense of predicates (e.g., buy.01), and semantic roles are defined in a frame-specific manner (e.g., buyer and seller for buy.01). In addition, these roles are associated with tags such as ARG0-5 and AM-*, which are commonly used in different frames. Most SRL studies on PropBank have used these tags in order to gather a sufficient amount of training data, and to generalize semantic-role classifiers across different frames. However, Yi et al. (2007) reported that tags ARG2-ARG5 were inconsistent and not that suitable as training instances. Some recent studies have addressed alternative approaches to generalizing semantic roles across different frames (Gordon and Swanson, 2007; Zapi- rain et al., 2008) . FrameNet designs semantic roles as frame specific, but also defines hierarchical relations of semantic roles among frames. Figure 2 illustrates an excerpt of the role hierarchy in FrameNet; this figure indicates that the Buyer role for the Commerce buy frame (Commerce buy::Buyer hereafter) and the Commerce sell::Buyer role are inherited from the Transfer::Recipient role. Although the role hierarchy was expected to generalize semantic roles, no positive results for role classification have been reported (Baldewein et al., 2004) . Therefore, the generalization of semantic roles across different frames has been brought up as a critical issue for FrameNet (Gildea and Jurafsky, 2002; Shi and Mihalcea, 2005; Giuglea and Moschitti, 2006) In this paper, we explore several criteria for generalizing semantic roles in FrameNet. In addition to the FrameNet hierarchy, we use various pieces of information: human-understandable descriptors of roles, semantic types of filler phrases, and mappings from FrameNet roles to the thematic roles of VerbNet. We also propose feature functions that naturally combines these criteria in a machine-learning framework. Using the proposed method, the experimental result of the role classification shows 19.16% and 7.42% improvements in error reduction rate and macro-averaged F1, respectively. We provide in-depth analyses with respect to these criteria, and state our conclusions. Moschitti et al. (2005) first classified roles by using four coarse-grained classes (Core Roles, Adjuncts, Continuation Arguments and Co-referring Arguments), and built a classifier for each coarsegrained class to tag PropBank ARG tags. Even though the initial classifiers could perform rough estimations of semantic roles, this step was not able to solve the ambiguity problem in PropBank ARG2-5. When training a classifier for a seman-tic role, Baldewein et al. (2004) re-used the training instances of other roles that were similar to the target role. As similarity measures, they used the FrameNet hierarchy, peripheral roles of FrameNet, and clusters constructed by a EM-based method. Gordon and Swanson (2007) proposed a generalization method for the PropBank roles based on syntactic similarity in frames.",
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"text": "We formalize the generalization of semantic roles as the act of grouping several roles into a class. We define a role group as a set of role labels grouped by a criterion. Figure 4 shows examples of role groups; a group Giving::Donor (in the hierarchical-relation groups) contains the roles Giving::Donor and Commerce pay::Buyer. The remainder of this section describes the grouping criteria in detail.",
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