Papers by Elizabeth Spaulding
Joint End-to-end Semantic Proto-role Labeling (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems for semantic proto-role labeling assign binary properties to arguments based on agent-like or patient-like properties. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a deep transformer model to model the performance of semantic proto-role labeling . they propose to include an error analysis to understand correlations between system stages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is robust in the presence of predicted arguments, the authors show . the proposed system also reduces annotation errors, the researchers conclude . |
On the Role of Semantic Proto-roles in Semantic Analysis: What do LLMs know about agency? (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on large language models (LLMs) have not explored their capacity to reason over event structure . et al., 2015, 142: e007-e0027; eugene, 1985; Weiner, 1995; saab, 1985) focus on the role of large language model in decision-making . |
| Approach: | They propose to characterize agents via properties such as "instigation" and "volition" they also examine whether incorporating semantic proto-role labeling context improves SRL performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves in a zero-shot setting by incorporating proto-role labeling context . the results support previous work showing that LLMs underperform human annotators in complex semantic analysis. |