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    "abstract": "We introduce a neural semantic parser which is interpretable and scalable. Our model converts natural language utterances to intermediate, domain-general natural language representations in the form of predicate-argument structures, which are induced with a transition system and subsequently mapped to target domains. The semantic parser is trained end-to-end using annotated logical forms or their denotations. We achieve the state of the art on SPADES and GRAPHQUESTIONS and obtain competitive results on GEO-QUERY and WEBQUESTIONS. The induced predicate-argument structures shed light on the types of representations useful for semantic parsing and how these are different from linguistically motivated ones. 1",
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                "text": "Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language utterances to machine interpretable meaning representations. Despite differences in the choice of meaning representation and model structure, most existing work conceptualizes semantic parsing following two main approaches. Under the first approach, an utterance is parsed and grounded to a meaning representation directly via learning a task-specific grammar (Zelle and Mooney, 1996; Zettlemoyer and Collins, 2005; Wong and Mooney, 2006; Kwiatkowksi et al., 2010; Liang et al., 2011; Berant et al., 2013; Flanigan et al., 2014; Pasupat and Liang, 2015; Groschwitz et al., 2015) . Under the second approach, the utterance is first parsed to an intermediate task-independent representation tied to a syntactic parser and then mapped to a grounded representation (Kwiatkowski et al., 2013; Reddy et al., , 2014 Krishnamurthy and Mitchell, 2015; Gardner and Krishnamurthy, 2017) . A merit of the two-stage approach is that it creates reusable intermediate interpretations, which potentially enables the handling of unseen words and knowledge transfer across domains (Bender et al., 2015) .",
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                "text": "The successful application of encoder-decoder models (Bahdanau et al., 2015; Sutskever et al., 2014) to a variety of NLP tasks has provided strong impetus to treat semantic parsing as a sequence transduction problem where an utterance is mapped to a target meaning representation in string format (Dong and Lapata, 2016; Jia and Liang, 2016; Ko\u010disk\u00fd et al., 2016) . Such models still fall under the first approach, however, in contrast to previous work (Zelle and Mooney, 1996; Zettlemoyer and Collins, 2005; Liang et al., 2011) they reduce the need for domain-specific assumptions, grammar learning, and more generally extensive feature engineering. But this modeling flexibility comes at a cost since it is no longer possible to interpret how meaning composition is performed. Such knowledge plays a critical role in understand modeling limitations so as to build better semantic parsers. Moreover, without any taskspecific prior knowledge, the learning problem is fairly unconstrained, both in terms of the possible derivations to consider and in terms of the target output which can be ill-formed (e.g., with extra or missing brackets).",
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                "text": "In this work, we propose a neural semantic parser that alleviates the aforementioned problems. Our model falls under the second class of approaches where utterances are first mapped to an intermediate representation containing natural language predicates. However, rather than using an external parser (Reddy et al., 2014 or manually specified CCG grammars (Kwiatkowski et al., 2013) , we induce intermediate representations in the form of predicate-argument structures from data. This is achieved with a transition-based approach which by design yields recursive semantic structures, avoiding the problem of generating ill-formed meaning representations. Compared to most existing semantic parsers which employ a CKY style bottom-up parsing strategy (Krishnamurthy and Mitchell, 2012; Cai and Yates, 2013; Berant et al., 2013; Berant and Liang, 2014) , the transition-based approach we proposed does not require feature decomposition over structures and thereby enables the exploration of rich, non-local features. The output of the transition system is then grounded (e.g., to a knowledge base) with a neural mapping model under the assumption that grounded and ungrounded structures are isomorphic. 2 As a result, we obtain a neural model that jointly learns to parse natural language semantics and induce a lexicon that helps grounding.",
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                "text": "The whole network is trained end-to-end on natural language utterances paired with annotated logical forms or their denotations. We conduct experiments on four datasets, including GEOQUERY (which has logical forms; Zelle and Mooney 1996), SPADES (Bisk et al., 2016) , WEB-QUESTIONS (Berant et al., 2013) , and GRAPH-QUESTIONS (Su et al., 2016 ) (which have denotations). Our semantic parser achieves the state of the art on SPADES and GRAPHQUESTIONS, while obtaining competitive results on GEOQUERY and WEBQUESTIONS. A side-product of our modeling framework is that the induced intermediate representations can contribute to rationalizing neural predictions (Lei et al., 2016) . Specifically, they can shed light on the kinds of representations (especially predicates) useful for semantic parsing. Evaluation of the induced predicate-argument relations against syntax-based ones reveals that they are interpretable and meaningful compared to heuristic baselines, but they sometimes deviate from linguistic conventions.",
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                "text": "Problem Formulation Let K denote a knowledge base or more generally a reasoning system, and x an utterance paired with a grounded meaning representation G or its denotation y. Our problem is to learn a semantic parser that maps x to G via an intermediate ungrounded representation U . When G is executed against K, it outputs denota- tion y.",
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                "text": "We represent grounded meaning representations in FunQL (Kate et al., 2005 ) amongst many other alternatives such as lambda calculus (Zettlemoyer and Collins, 2005) , \u03bb-DCS (Liang, 2013) or graph queries (Holzschuher and Peinl, 2013; Harris et al., 2013) . FunQL is a variable-free query language, where each predicate is treated as a function symbol that modifies an argument list. For example, the FunQL representation for the utterance which states do not border texas is:",
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                "text": "We also use FunQL to express ungrounded meaning representations. The latter consist primarily of natural language predicates and domain-general predicates. Assuming for simplicity that domaingeneral predicates share the same vocabulary in ungrounded and grounded representations, the ungrounded representation for the example utterance is:",
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                "text": "where states and border are natural language predicates. In this work we consider five types of domain-general predicates illustrated in Table 1 . Notice that domain-general predicates are often implicit, or represent extra-sentential knowledge. For example, the predicate all in the above utterance represents all states in the domain which are not mentioned in the utterance but are critical for working out the utterance denotation. Finally, note that for certain domain-general predicates, it also makes sense to extract natural language rationales (e.g., not is indicative for exclude). But we do not find this helpful in experiments.",
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                "text": "In this section, we discuss our neural model which maps utterances to target logical forms. The semantic parsing task is decomposed in two stages: we first explain how an utterance is converted to an intermediate representation (Section 3.1), and then describe how it is grounded to a knowledge base (Section 3.2).",
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                "text": "At this stage, utterances are mapped to intermediate representations with a transition-based algorithm. In general, the transition system generates the representation by following a derivation tree (which contains a set of applied rules) and some canonical generation order (e.g., depth-first). For FunQL, a simple solution exists since the representation itself encodes the derivation. Consider again answer(exclude(states(all), border(texas))) which is tree structured. Each predicate (e.g., border) can be visualized as a non-terminal node of the tree and each entity (e.g., texas) as a terminal. The predicate all is a special case which acts as a terminal directly. We can generate the tree with a top-down, depth first transition system reminiscent of recurrent neural network grammars (RN-NGs; . Similar to RNNG, our algorithm uses a buffer to store input tokens in the utterance and a stack to store partially completed trees. A major difference in our semantic parsing scenario is that tokens in the buffer are not fetched in a sequential order or removed from the buffer. This is because the lexical alignment between an utterance and its semantic representation is hidden. Moreover, some predicates cannot be clearly anchored to a token span. Therefore, we allow the generation algorithm to pick tokens and combine logical forms in arbitrary orders, conditioning on the entire set of sentential features. Alternative solutions in the traditional semantic parsing literature include a floating chart parser (Pasupat and Liang, 2015) which allows to construct logical predicates out of thin air.",
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                "text": "where e t is the concatenation of the buffer representation b t and the stack representation s t . While the stack representation s t is easy to retrieve as the top state of the stack-LSTM, obtaining the buffer representation b t is more involved. This is because we do not have an explicit buffer representation due to the non-projectivity of semantic parsing. We therefore compute at each time step an adaptively weighted representation of b t (Bahdanau et al., 2015) conditioned on the stack representation s t . This buffer representation is then concatenated with the stack representation to form the system representation e t . When the predicted action is either NT or TER, an ungrounded term u t (either a predicate or an entity) needs to be chosen from the candidate list depending on the specific placeholder X. To select a domain-general term, we use the same representation of the transition system e t to compute a probability distribution over candidate terms:",
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