Chinese Semantic Role Labeling with bidirectional recurrent neural networks

Abstract

Traditional approaches to Chinese Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) almost heavily rely on feature engineering. Even worse, the long-range dependencies in a sentence can hardly be modeled by these methods. In this paper, we introduce bidirectional recurrent neural network (RNN) with long-short-term memory (LSTM) to capture bidirectional and long-range dependencies in a sentence with minimal feature engineering. Experimental results on Chinese Proposition Bank (CPB) show a significant improvement over the state-of the-art methods. Moreover, our model makes it convenient to introduce heterogeneous resource, which makes a further improvement on our experimental performance.