Polaris: Lymba's semantic parser

Dan Moldovan, Eduardo Blanco

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Abstract

Semantic representation of text is key to text understanding and reasoning. In this paper, we present Polaris, Lymba's semantic parser. Polaris is a supervised semantic parser that given text extracts semantic relations. It extracts relations from a wide variety of lexico-syntactic patterns, including verb-argument structures, noun compounds and others. The output can be provided in several formats: XML, RDF triples, logic forms or plain text, facilitating interoperability with other tools. Polaris is implemented using eight separate modules. Each module is explained and a detailed example of processing using a sample sentence is provided. Overall results using a benchmark are discussed. Per module performance, including errors made and pruned by each module are also analyzed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
EditorsMehmet Ugur Dogan, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Sara Goggi, Khalid Choukri, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Thierry Declerck, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Helene Mazo, Olivier Hamon
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages66-72
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9782951740877
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: May 21 2012May 27 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period5/21/125/27/12

Keywords

  • Semantic parser
  • Semantic relations
  • Semantic representation of text

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education
  • Library and Information Sciences

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