Spanish Abstract Meaning Representation: Annotation of a General Corpus

Shira Wein, Lucia Donatelli, Ethan Ricker, Calvin Engstrom, Alex Nelson, Leonie Harter, Nathan Schneider


Abstract
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), originally designed for English, has been adapted to a number of languages to facilitate cross-lingual semantic representation and analysis. We build on previous work and present the first sizable, general annotation project for Spanish AMR. We release a detailed set of annotation guidelines and a corpus of 486 gold-annotated sentences spanning multiple genres from an existing, cross-lingual AMR corpus. Our work constitutes the second largest non-English gold AMR corpus to date. Fine-tuning an AMR to-Spanish generation model with our annotations results in a BERTScore improvement of 8.8%, demonstrating initial utility of our work.
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2022.nejlt-1.6
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Northern European Journal of Language Technology, Volume 8
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2022
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Leon Derczynski
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NEJLT
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Northern European Association of Language Technology
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.nejlt-1.6
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https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.2022.4462
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Shira Wein, Lucia Donatelli, Ethan Ricker, Calvin Engstrom, Alex Nelson, Leonie Harter, and Nathan Schneider. 2022. Spanish Abstract Meaning Representation: Annotation of a General Corpus. In Northern European Journal of Language Technology, Volume 8, Copenhagen, Denmark. Northern European Association of Language Technology.
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