Questioning the scope of SRL

We are alone when faced with a real-life project. We have a job to do, and the only people to satisfy are those who asked for that project.

Pragmatism must come first – technical ideology after.

In the 2020s, former AI ideology and new ideology coexist. By the decade’s end, the two worlds will have merged to form a new era.

This section questions the productivity of SRL and its motivation through two aspects:

• The limit of predicate analysis
• Questioning the use of the term “semantic”

The challenges of predicate analysis

SRL relies on predicates. SRL only works as long as you provide a verb. But millions of sentences do not contain verbs (ellipsis).

If you provide an LLM with an assertion alone, it works.

But what happens if your assertion is an answer to a question? The question can contain a verb, for example:

Person 1: What would you like to drink, please?

But the person...