X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling
| Item Name: | X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling |
| Author(s): | Angel Daza, Anette Frank |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2021T09 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-962-1 |
| ISLRN: | 416-358-951-021-2 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/10zk-gq05 |
| Release Date: | April 15, 2021 |
| Member Year(s): | 2021 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Text |
| Data Source(s): | newswire |
| Application(s): | machine translation, semantic role labelling |
| Language(s): | German, Spanish, French |
| Language ID(s): | deu, spa, fra |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2021T09 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Daza, Angel, and Anette Frank. X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling LDC2021T09. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2021. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling was developed by Heidelberg University, Department of Computational Linguistics and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). It consists of approximately three million words of German, French and Spanish annotated for semantic role labeling. The texts are translations of the English portion of 2009 CoNLL Shared Task Part 2 (LDC2012T04). All sentences have annotations for verbal predicates and share the original English Propbank label set across the four languages.
Data
The 2009 CoNLL Shared Task developed syntactic dependency annotations, including the semantic dependency model roles of both verbal and nominal predicates. The following English data was used in the shared task:
- Treebank-2 (LDC95T7): over one million words of annotated English newswire and other text developed by the University of Pennsylvania
- Proposition Bank I (LDC2004T14): semantic annotation of newswire text from Treebank-2 developed by the University of Pennsylvania
- NomBank v 1.0 (LDC2008T23): argument structure for instances of common nouns in Treebank-2 and Treebank-3 (LDC99T42), developed by New York University
For X-SRL, the English source data was automatically translated using DeepL. Automatic tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and syntactic parsing were then applied to the text. The data was divided into train, development and test partitions. Semantic labels were transferred for the train and development sections, and the test sentences were validated for translation quality, alignment, label transfer, and filtering.
More information on the development process and tools used is available in the included documentation.
Annotated data is in the Universal CoNLL format and encoded in UTF-8.
Sponsorship
The creation of this corpus was funded by the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling" supported by Leibniz Association (grant no. SAS2015-IDS-LWC) and by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Art of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Samples
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Updates
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