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    <abstract>We consider the task of crosslingual semantic parsing in the style of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) where knowledge from annotated corpora in a resource-rich language is transferred via bitext to guide learning in other languages. We introduce 𝕌niversal Discourse Representation Theory (𝕌DRT), a variant of DRT that explicitly anchors semantic representations to tokens in the linguistic input. We develop a semantic parsing framework based on the Transformer architecture and utilize it to obtain semantic resources in multiple languages following two learning schemes. The many-to-one approach translates non-English text to English, and then runs a relatively accurate English parser on the translated text, while the one-to-many approach translates gold standard English to non-English text and trains multiple parsers (one per language) on the translations. Experimental results on the Parallel Meaning Bank show that our proposal outperforms strong baselines by a wide margin and can be used to construct (silver-standard) meaning banks for 99 languages.</abstract>
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%0 Journal Article
%T Universal Discourse Representation Structure Parsing
%A Liu, Jiangming
%A Cohen, Shay B.
%A Lapata, Mirella
%A Bos, Johan
%J Computational Linguistics
%D 2021
%8 June
%V 47
%N 2
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F liu-etal-2021-universal
%X We consider the task of crosslingual semantic parsing in the style of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) where knowledge from annotated corpora in a resource-rich language is transferred via bitext to guide learning in other languages. We introduce 𝕌niversal Discourse Representation Theory (𝕌DRT), a variant of DRT that explicitly anchors semantic representations to tokens in the linguistic input. We develop a semantic parsing framework based on the Transformer architecture and utilize it to obtain semantic resources in multiple languages following two learning schemes. The many-to-one approach translates non-English text to English, and then runs a relatively accurate English parser on the translated text, while the one-to-many approach translates gold standard English to non-English text and trains multiple parsers (one per language) on the translations. Experimental results on the Parallel Meaning Bank show that our proposal outperforms strong baselines by a wide margin and can be used to construct (silver-standard) meaning banks for 99 languages.
%R 10.1162/coli_a_00406
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.cl-2.15
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00406
%P 445-476

Markdown (Informal)

[Universal Discourse Representation Structure Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/2021.cl-2.15) (Liu et al., CL 2021)

• Universal Discourse Representation Structure Parsing (Liu et al., CL 2021)

ACL

• Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata, and Johan Bos. 2021. Universal Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 47(2):445–476.