Generating Logical Forms from Graph Representations of Text and Entities

ACL 2019 · Peter Shaw, Philip Massey, Angelica Chen, Francesco Piccinno, Yasemin Altun ·

Structured information about entities is critical for many semantic parsing tasks. We present an approach that uses a Graph Neural Network (GNN) architecture to incorporate information about relevant entities and their relations during parsing. Combined with a decoder copy mechanism, this approach provides a conceptually simple mechanism to generate logical forms with entities. We demonstrate that this approach is competitive with the state-of-the-art across several tasks without pre-training, and outperforms existing approaches when combined with BERT pre-training.