Comparing UMR and Cross-lingual Adaptations of AMR

Shira Wein, Julia Bonn


Abstract
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a popular semantic annotation schema that presents sentence meaning as a graph while abstracting away from syntax. It was originally designed for English, but has since been extended to a variety of non-English versions of AMR. These cross-lingual adaptations, to varying degrees, incorporate language-specific features necessary to effectively capture the semantics of the language being annotated. Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) on the other hand, the multilingual extension of AMR, was designed specifically for cross-lingual applications. In this work, we discuss these two approaches to extending AMR beyond English. We describe both approaches, compare the information they capture for a case language (Spanish), and outline implications for future work.
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2023.dmr-1.3
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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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June
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2023
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Nancy, France
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Julia Bonn, Nianwen Xue
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DMR | WS
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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23–33
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Shira Wein and Julia Bonn. 2023. Comparing UMR and Cross-lingual Adaptations of AMR. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 23–33, Nancy, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Comparing UMR and Cross-lingual Adaptations of AMR (Wein & Bonn, DMR-WS 2023)
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