EMNLP 2025

November 08, 2025

Suzhou, China

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Semantic parsing of long documents remains challenging due to quadratic growth in pairwise composition and memory requirements. We introduce \textbf{Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory (HSGM)}, a novel framework that decomposes an input of length $N$ into $M$ meaningful segments, constructs \emph{Local Semantic Graphs} on each segment, and extracts compact \emph{summary nodes} to form a \emph{Global Graph Memory}. HSGM supports \emph{incremental updates}—only newly arrived segments incur local graph construction and summary‐node integration—while \emph{Hierarchical Query Processing} locates relevant segments via top-$K$ retrieval over summary nodes and then performs fine-grained reasoning within their local graphs.

Theoretically, HSGM reduces worst-case complexity from $O(N^2)$ to $O\bigl(N\,k + (N/k)^2\bigr)$, with segment size $k \ll N$, and we derive Frobenius‐norm bounds on the approximation error introduced by node summarization and sparsification thresholds. Empirically, on three benchmarks—long-document AMR parsing, segment-level semantic role labeling (OntoNotes), and legal event extraction—HSGM achieves \emph{2–4× inference speedup}, \emph{$>$60\% reduction} in peak memory, and \emph{$\ge95\%$} of baseline accuracy. Our approach unlocks scalable, accurate semantic modeling for ultra-long texts, enabling real-time and resource-constrained NLP applications.

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