Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Semantic Parsing

99 Pages·2014·4.72 MB·English

ACL 2014
ACL 2014
Workshop on Semantic Parsing (SP14)
Proceedings of the Workshop
June 26, 2014
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Introduction
Semantic parsers map sentences to formal representations of their underlying meaning. Recently,
algorithms have been developed to learn to recover increasingly expressive representations with ever
weaker forms of supervision. These advances have enabled many applications, including question
answering,relationextraction,robotcontrol,interpretinginstructions,andgeneratingprograms.
Thisworkshop,collocatedwithACL2014,aimstoachievetwogoals. First,tobringtogetherresearchers
inthefieldtodiscussthestateoftheartandopportunitiesforfutureresearch. Second, tocreateastage
forpresentingthevarietyofcurrentapproaches,therebyprovidingauniqueopportunityfornewentrants
tothefield.
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Organizers:
YoavArtzi,UniversityofWashington
TomKwiatkowski,AllenInstituteforAI
JonathanBerant,StanfordUniversity
SteeringCommittee:
PercyLiang,StanfordUniversity
JakobUszkoreit,Google
LukeZettlemoyer,UniversityofWashington
ProgramCommittee:
GaborAngeli,StanfordUniversity
JohnBlitzer,Google
JohanBos,UniversityofGroningen
QingqingCai,TempleUniversity
StephenClark,CambridgeUniversity
DipanjanDas,Google
AnthonyFader,UniversityofWashington
NicholasFitzGerald,UniversityofWashington
DanGoldwasser,TheUniversityofMaryland
KarlMoritzHermann,UniversityofOxford
ChloeKiddon,UniversityofWashington
JayantKrishnamurthy,CarnegieMellonUniversity
NateKushman,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology
MikeLewis,TheUniversityofEdinburgh
SmarandaMuresan,ColumbiaUniversity
HoifungPoon,MicrosoftResearch
SivaReddy,TheUniversityofEdinburgh
MatthewRichardson,MicrosoftResearch
DanRoth,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign
AndreasVlachos,UniversityofCambridge
AlexanderYates,TempleUniversity
MarkYatskar,UniversityofWashington
InvitedSpeakers:
KevinKnight,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia/InformationSciencesInstitute
PercyLiang,StanfordUniversity
RaymondMooney,TheUniversityofTexasatAustin
HoifungPoon,MicrosoftResearch
MarkSteedman,TheUniversityofEdinburgh
StefanieTellex,BrownUniversity
LukeZettlemoyer,UniversityofWashington
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Table of Contents
LearningaLexiconforBroad-coverageSemanticParsing
JamesAllen.............................................................................1
SemanticParsingusingDistributionalSemanticsandProbabilisticLogic
IslamBeltagy,KatrinErkandRaymondMooney ........................................... 7
Large-scaleCCGInductionfromtheGroningenMeaningBank
SebastianBeschke,YangLiuandWolfgangMenzel........................................12
SemanticParsingforTextto3DSceneGeneration
AngelChang,ManolisSavvaandChristopherManning .................................... 17
ADeepArchitectureforSemanticParsing
EdwardGrefenstette,PhilBlunsom,NandodeFreitasandKarlMoritzHermann..............22
CombiningFormalandDistributionalModelsofTemporalandIntensionalSemantics
MikeLewisandMarkSteedman.........................................................28
CookingwithSemantics
JonathanMalmaud,EarlWagner,NancyChangandKevinMurphy..........................33
RepresentingCausedMotioninEmbodiedConstructionGrammar
EllenKDodgeandMiriamRLPetruck...................................................39
Low-DimensionalEmbeddingsofLogic
TimRocktäschel,MatkoBošnjak,SameerSinghandSebastianRiedel.......................45
SoftwareRequirements: AnewDomainforSemanticParsers
MichaelRoth,ThemistoklisDiamantopoulos,EwanKleinandAndreasSymeonidis...........50
FromTreebankParsestoEpisodicLogicandCommonsenseInference
LenhartSchubert.......................................................................55
OnmaximumspanningDAGalgorithmsforsemanticDAGparsing
NatalieSchluter........................................................................61
IntermediarySemanticRepresentationthroughPropositionStructures
GabrielStanovsky,JessicaFicler,IdoDaganandYoavGoldberg ............................ 66
EfficientLogicalInferenceforSemanticProcessing
RanTian,YusukeMiyaoandTakuyaMatsuzaki...........................................71
TowardsREADME-EVAL:InterpretingREADMEFileInstructions
JamesWhite ........................................................................... 76
FreebaseQA:InformationExtractionorSemanticParsing?
XuchenYao,JonathanBerantandBenjaminVanDurme....................................82
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Workshop Program
Thursday,June26,2014
9:00–9:05 OpeningRemarks
InvitedTalks
9:05–9:50 SemanticParsing: Past,Present,andFuture
RaymondMooney
9:50–10:20 CanaMachineTranslateWithoutKnowingWhatTranslationIs?
KevinKnight
ExceptionalSubmissionTalks
10:20–10:30 Low-DimensionalEmbeddingsofLogic
TimRocktäschel,MatkoBošnjak,SameerSinghandSebastianRiedel
10:30–11:00 CoffeeBreak
11:00–11:10 CombiningFormalandDistributionalModelsofTemporalandIntensionalSeman-
tics
MikeLewisandMarkSteedman
11:10–11:20 CookingwithSemantics
JonathanMalmaud,EarlWagner,NancyChangandKevinMurphy
11:20–12:30 PosterSession
LearningaLexiconforBroad-coverageSemanticParsing
JamesAllen
SemanticParsingusingDistributionalSemanticsandProbabilisticLogic
IslamBeltagy,KatrinErkandRaymondMooney
Large-scaleCCGInductionfromtheGroningenMeaningBank
SebastianBeschke,YangLiuandWolfgangMenzel
SemanticParsingforTextto3DSceneGeneration
AngelChang,ManolisSavvaandChristopherManning
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Thursday,June26,2014(continued)
Leveraging Frame Semantics and Distributional Semantics for Unsupervised Semantic
SlotInductioninSpokenDialogueSystems
Yun-nungChen,WilliamYangWangandAlexanderRudnicky
SemanticParsingforInformationExtraction
EunsolChoi,TomKwiatkowskiandLukeZettlemoyer
ParsingandGroundingReferringExpressionsinAutomaticallyConstructed3DModels
NicholasFitzgeraldandLukeZettlemoyer
Graph-BasedAlgorithmsforSemanticParsing
JeffreyFlanigan,SamuelThomson,DavidBamman,JesseDodge,ManaalFaruqui,Bren-
danO’Connor,NathanSchneider,SwabhaSwayamdipta,ChrisDyerandNoahA.Smith
ADeepArchitectureforSemanticParsing
EdwardGrefenstette,PhilBlunsom,NandodeFreitasandKarlMoritzHermann
Symmetry-BasedSemanticParsing
ChloéKiddonandPedroDomingos
LeveragingHeterogeneousDataSourcesforRelationalSemanticParsing
MeghanaKshirsagar,NathanSchneiderandChrisDyer
Context-dependentSemanticParsingforTimeExpressions
KentonLee,YoavArtzi,JesseDodgeandLukeZettlemoyer
CombiningFormalandDistributionalModelsofTemporalandIntensionalSemantics
MikeLewisandMarkSteedman
CookingwithSemantics
JonathanMalmaud,EarlWagner,NancyChangandKevinMurphy
RepresentingCausedMotioninEmbodiedConstructionGrammar
EllenKDodgeandMiriamRLPetruck
ConstructingSemanticParsingDatasetsfromTechnicalDocumentation
KyleRichardsonandJonasKuhn
NotesontheMCTestDatasetfortheOpen-DomainMachineComprehensionofText
MatthewRichardson,ChristopherJ.C.BurgesandErinRenshaw
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