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Textual Analogy Parsing: What’s Shared and What’s Compared among Analogous Facts
- Source :
- EMNLP
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018.
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Abstract
- To understand a sentence like “whereas only 10% of White Americans live at or below the poverty line, 28% of African Americans do” it is important not only to identify individual facts, e.g., poverty rates of distinct demographic groups, but also the higher-order relations between them, e.g., the disparity between them. In this paper, we propose the task of Textual Analogy Parsing (TAP) to model this higher-order meaning. Given a sentence such as the one above, TAP outputs a frame-style meaning representation which explicitly specifies what is shared (e.g., poverty rates) and what is compared (e.g., White Americans vs. African Americans, 10% vs. 28%) between its component facts. Such a meaning representation can enable new applications that rely on discourse understanding such as automated chart generation from quantitative text. We present a new dataset for TAP, baselines, and a model that successfully uses an ILP to enforce the structural constraints of the problem.
- Subjects :
- Parsing
Poverty
Computer science
business.industry
Analogy
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
Representation (arts)
computer.software_genre
Task (project management)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
Sentence
Natural language processing
Meaning (linguistics)
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8a249e7a1d4d3b8737008de12156d78a