Questioning the scope of SRL
We are alone when faced with a real-life project. We have a job to do, and the only people to satisfy are those who asked for that project.
Pragmatism must come first. Technical ideology after.
In the 2020s, former AI ideology and new ideology coexist. By the end of the decade, there will be only one winner merging some of the former into the latter.
This section questions the productivity of SRL and also its motivation through two aspects:
- The limit of predicate analysis
- Questioning the use of the term “semantic”
The limit of predicate analysis
SRL relies on predicates. SRL BERT only works as long as you provide a verb. But millions of sentences do not contain verbs.
If you provide SRL BERT in the Semantic Role Labeling section in the AllenNLP demo interface (https://demo.allennlp.org/) with an assertion alone, it works.
But what happens if your assertion is an answer to a question:
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