ACL Anthology Network (All About NLP) (beta) The Association Of Computational Linguistics Anthology Network |
ACL ID | N13-1103 |
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Title | Using Semantic Unification to Generate Regular Expressions from Natural Language |
Venue | Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Session | Main Conference |
Year | 2013 |
Authors |
We consider the problem of translating natu- ral language text queries into regular expres- sions which represent their meaning. The mis- match in the level of abstraction between the natural language representation and the regu- lar expression representation make this a novel and challenging problem. However, a given regular expression can be written in many se- mantically equivalent forms, and we exploit this flexibility to facilitate translation by find- ing a form which more directly corresponds to the natural language. We evaluate our tech- nique on a set of natural language queries and their associated regular expressions which we gathered from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our model substantially outperforms a state- of-the-art semantic parsing baseline, yielding a 29% absolute improvemen...