Streszczenie:
This work presents the application of the rational speech acts (RSA) model to create an entity
linking module in a semantic parsing setting. In the theoretical part we review the rational
speech acts model and explore a myriad of approaches to semantic parsing. Main ideas from
the core articles from both fields are extracted and concisely summarised, which motivate the
hypothesis behind this work. In the research part we first present the WIKISQL dataset which
serves as the evaluation engine for the introduced models. Then, we give an overview of an
existing SQL semantic parsing model, that acts as a base for the models proposed as part of
this work. Subsequently, we demonstrate a novel model to solve the task on hand, that builds
upon the aforementioned architecture, enriching it with an entity linking module. The final
results are compared against a number of baselines from previous publications and exhibit
a significant improvement over them. Such an enhancement goes to show that pragmatic
reasoning and, in particular, the RSA, helps to disambiguate entities mentioned in the natural
language question and can serve as a modular way of enriching existing semantic parsers.
