Predicates and entities in Abstract Meaning Representation

Antoine Venant, François Lareau


Abstract
Nodes in Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) are generally thought of as neo-Davidsonian entities. We review existing translation into neo-Davidsonian representations and show that these translations inconsistently handle copula sentences. We link the problem to an asymmetry arising from a problematic handling of words with no associated PropBank frames for the underlying predicate. We introduce a method to automatically and uniformly decompose AMR nodes into an entity-part and a predicative part, which offers a consistent treatment of copula sentences and quasi- predicates such as brother or client.
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2023.depling-1.4
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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
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March
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2023
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Washington, D.C.
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Owen Rambow, François Lareau
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DepLing | SyntaxFest
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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32–41
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Antoine Venant and François Lareau. 2023. Predicates and entities in Abstract Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 32–41, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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