Jointly Identifying Predicates, Arguments and Senses using Markov Logic

In this paper we present a Markov Logic Network for Semantic Role Labelling that jointly performs predicate identification, frame disambiguation, argument identification and argument classification for all predicates in a sentence. Empirically we find that our approach is competitive: our best model would appear on par with the best entry in the CoNLL 2008 shared task open track, and at the 4th place of the closed track—right behind the systems that use significantly better parsers to generate their input features. Moreover, we observe that by fully capturing the complete SRL pipeline in a single probabilistic model we can achieve significant improvements over more isolated systems, in particular for out-of-domain data. Finally, we show that despite the joint approach, our system is still efficient.