@inproceedings{wein-etal-2023-measuring,
title = "Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with {A}bstract {M}eaning {R}epresentation",
author = "Wein, Shira and
Wang, Zhuxin and
Schneider, Nathan",
editor = "Amblard, Maxime and
Breitholtz, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics",
month = jun,
year = "2023",
address = "Nancy, France",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.iwcs-1.16",
pages = "144--154",
abstract = "Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-level approach to {``}equivalence,{''} despite evidence that fine-grained differences and implicit content have an effect on human understanding and system performance. In this work, we introduce a novel, more sensitive method of characterizing cross-lingual semantic equivalence that leverages Abstract Meaning Representation graph structures. We find that parsing sentences into AMRs and comparing the AMR graphs enables finer-grained equivalence measurement than comparing the sentences themselves. We demonstrate that when using gold or even automatically parsed AMR annotations, our solution is finer-grained than existing corpus filtering methods and more accurate at predicting strictly equivalent sentences than existing semantic similarity metrics.",
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%T Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation
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%Y Amblard, Maxime
%Y Breitholtz, Ellen
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%P 144-154
Markdown (Informal)
[Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.iwcs-1.16) (Wein et al., IWCS 2023)
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