Effective QA-Driven Annotation of Predicate–Argument Relations Across Languages (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Explicit representations of predicate-argument relations are a cornerstone of natural language understanding. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-linguistic projection approach that reuses an English QA-SRL parser within a constrained translation and word-alignment pipeline to automatically generate question-answer annotations aligned with target-language predicates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms strong multilingual LLMs in Hebrew, Russian, and French. |
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