Abstract

Semantic role labeling has become a popular natural language processing task in recent years. A number of conferences have addressed this task for the English language and many different approaches have been applied to the task. In particular, some have used a memory-based learning approach. This thesis further develops the memory-based learning approach to semantic role labeling through the use of analogical modeling of language. Data for this task were taken from a previous conference (CoNLL-2005) so that a direct comparison could be made with other algorithms that attempted to solve this task. It will be shown here that the current approach is able to closely compare to other memory-based learning systems on the same task. Future work is also addressed.

Degree

MA

College and Department

Humanities; Linguistics and English Language

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Date Submitted

2008-07-14

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd2516

Keywords

semantic role labeling, memory-based processing, analogical modeling

Language

English

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