Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels

Danilo Neves Ribeiro, Jack Goetz, Omid Abdar, Mike Ross, Annie Dong, Kenneth Forbus, Ahmed Mohamed


Abstract
Frame semantic parsing is an important component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Current models rely on a significant amount training data to successfully identify the intent and slots in the user’s input utterance. This creates a significant barrier for adding new domains to virtual assistant capabilities, as creation of this data requires highly specialized NLP expertise. In this work we propose OpenFSP, a framework that allows for easy creation of new domains from a handful of simple labels that can be generated without specific NLP knowledge. Our approach relies on creating a small, but expressive, set of domain agnostic slot types that enables easy annotation of new domains. Given such annotation, a matching algorithm relying on sentence encoders predicts the intent and slots for domains defined by end-users. Experiments on the TopV2 dataset shows that our model trained on these simple labels have strong performance against supervised baselines.
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2023.pandl-1.6
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Mihai Surdeanu, Ellen Riloff, Laura Chiticariu, Dayne Frietag, Gus Hahn-Powell, Clayton T. Morrison, Enrique Noriega-Atala, Rebecca Sharp, Marco Valenzuela-Escarcega
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PANDL | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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54–63
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.pandl-1.6
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10.18653/v1/2023.pandl-1.6
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Danilo Neves Ribeiro, Jack Goetz, Omid Abdar, Mike Ross, Annie Dong, Kenneth Forbus, and Ahmed Mohamed. 2023. Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning, pages 54–63, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels (Neves Ribeiro et al., PANDL-WS 2023)
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