Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey [paper]

It is currently an emerging field. Welcome to contribute! This survey has been accepted to COLING'2020. As there are more papers related to this field, I think I may update this survey once half a year. If you find this survey useful, please cite:

@article{li2020context,
  title={Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey},
  author={Li, Zhuang and Qu, Lizhen and Haffari, Gholamreza},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00797},
  year={2020}
}

Leaderboard

• SParC 1.0 [url]
• CoSQL 1.0 [url]

Datasets

Not all the datasets are released on their papers. For some datasets, you may need to email the author to acquire them.

Single-party Datasets

• Evaluation of spoken language systems: The atis domain. (1990), Patti J Price. [paper] [data]
• Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering. (ACL 2017), Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih, and Ming-Wei Chan [paper] [data]
• Sparc: Cross-domain semantic parsing in context. (ACL 2019), Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Yi Chern Tan, Xi Victoria Lin, Suyi Li, Heyang Er, Irene Li, Bo Pang,Tao Chen, et al. [paper] [data]
• Context-dependent semantic parsing for time expressions. (ACL 2014) Kenton Lee, Yoav Artzi, Jesse Dodge, and Luke Zettlemoyer. [paper] [data]
• Context-dependent semantic parsing over temporally structured data. (NAACL 2019) Charles Chen and Razvan Bunescu. [paper] [data]
• Simpler context-dependent logical forms via model projections. (ACL 2016) Reginald Long, Panupong Pasupat, and Percy Liang. [paper] [data]
• Complex sequential question answering: Towards learning to converse over linked question answer pairs with a knowledge graph. (AAAI 2018) Amrita Saha, Vardaan Pahuja, Mitesh M Khapra, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, and Sarath Chandar. [paper] [data]
• Conversational Semantic Parsing (EMNLP 2020) Armen Aghajanyan, Jean Maillard, Akshat Shrivastava, Keith Diedrick, Mike Haeger, Haoran Li, Yashar Mehdad, Ves Stoyanov, Anuj Kumar, Mike Lewis, Sonal Gupta. [paper] [data]

Multi-party Datasets

• A new corpus and imitation learning framework for context-dependent semantic parsing. (TACL 2014) Andreas Vlachos and Stephen Clark. [paper] [data]
• Parsing natural language conversations using contextual cues. (IJCAI 2019) Shashank Srivastava, Amos Azaria, and Tom M Mitchell. [paper]
• Cosql: A conversational text-to-sql challenge towards cross-domain natural language interfaces to databases. (EMNLP 2019) Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, He Yang Er, Suyi Li, Eric Xue, Bo Pang, Xi Victoria Lin, Yi Chern Tan, Tianze Shi, Zihan Li, et al. [paper] [data]
• Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking (EMNLP 2020) Jianpeng Cheng, Devang Agrawal, etc. [paper] [data]

Methods

There is a lot of work going on but without paper released. We will update this list once those work on contextual semantic parsing is published.

Symbolic Approaches

• Learning context-dependent mappings from sentences to logical form. (ACL 2009) Luke S Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins. [paper]
• Parsing natural language conversations using contextual cues. (IJCAI 2019) Shashank Srivastava, Amos Azaria, and Tom M Mitchell. [paper]
• Simpler context-dependent logical forms via model projections. (ACL 2016) Reginald Long, Panupong Pasupat, and Percy Liang. [paper]

Neural Approaches

• Learning to map context-dependent sentences to executable formal queries. (NAACL 2018) Alane Suhr, Srinivasan Iyer, and Yoav Artzi. [paper] [code]
• Situated mapping of sequential instructions to actions with single-step reward observation. (ACL 2018) Alane Suhr and Yoav Artzi. [paper] [code]
• Editing-based sql query generation for cross-domain context-dependent questions. (EMNLP 2019) Rui Zhang, Tao Yu, He Yang Er, Sungrok Shim, Eric Xue, Xi Victoria Lin, Tianze Shi, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, and Dragomir Radev. [paper] [code]
• A pointer network architecture for context-dependent semantic parsing. (ALTA 2019) Xuanli He, Quan Hung Tran, and Gholamreza Haffari. [paper]
• How far are we from effective context modeling? an exploratory study on semantic parsing in context. (IJCAI 2020) Qian Liu, Bei Chen, Jiaqi Guo, Jian-Guang Lou, Bin Zhou, and Dongmei Zhang. [paper] [code]
• From language to programs: Bridging reinforcement learning and maximum marginal likelihood. (ACL 2017) Kelvin Guu, Panupong Pasupat, Evan Zheran Liu, and Percy Liang. [paper] [code]
• Context-dependent semantic parsing over temporally structured data. (NAACL 2019) Charles Chen and Razvan Bunescu. [paper] [code]

Neural-Symbolic Approaches

• How far are we from effective context modeling? an exploratory study on semantic parsing in context. (IJCAI 2020) Qian Liu, Bei Chen, Jiaqi Guo, Jian-Guang Lou, Bin Zhou, and Dongmei Zhang. [paper] [code]
• Multi-task learning for conversational question answering over a large-scale knowledge base. (EMNLP 2019) Tao Shen, Xiubo Geng, Tao Qin, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Guodong Long, and Daxin Jiang. [paper] [code]
• Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering. (ACL 2017), Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih, and Ming-Wei Chan [paper] [code]
• Knowledge-aware conversational semantic parsing over web tables. (NLPCC 2019) Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Jingjing Xu, Nan Duan, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, and Ming Zhou. [paper]
• Dialog-to-action: Conversational question answering over a large-scale knowledge base. (Neurips 2018) Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, and Jian Yin. [paper] [code]
• Coupling retrieval and meta-learning for context-dependent semantic parsing. (ACL 2019) Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, and Jian Yin. [paper]
• IGSQL: Database Schema Interaction Graph Based Neural Model for Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL Generation (EMNLP 2020) Yitao Cai, Xiaojun Wan [paper] [code]