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title = "{C}x{G}r-{AMR}: Extending {A}bstract {M}eaning {R}epresentation Beyond Lexically Anchored Relations with Constructional Rolesets",
author = "Bonial, Claire and
Post, Claire Benet and
Van Eecke, Paul and
Beuls, Katrien and
Tayyar Madabushi, Harish",
editor = "Zhao, Jin and
Post, Claire Benet and
Hoefer, Elizabeth",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations ({DMR} 2026) @ {LREC} 2026",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.dmr-1.1/",
doi = "10.63317/2qet4tijyo2w",
pages = "1--19",
abstract = "Current Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotation guidelines, which largely tie argument structure to lexical rolesets, systematically misrepresent cases in which key semantic roles stem from clause-level structure rather than the verb, leaving these meanings either unnaturally attached, incorrect, or unexpressed. To address this limitation, we present CxGr-AMR, a novel extension of AMR that captures the semantics of various types of phrasal constructions, including argument structure constructions. We first examine how such cases are handled under current Standard-AMR guidelines and show that these analyses are often inadequate when constructionally contributed roles clash with those assigned by the verb. We then provide a theoretical grounding for our CxGr-AMR rolesets that lay out the relationship between the syntactic signatures of constructional slots and particular semantic roles associated with them. Finally, we develop an annotation-expert-in-the-loop pipeline for the semi-automatic annotation of sentences, and release a dataset containing 355 instances of phrasal constructions annotated with both Standard and CxGr-AMR."
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%T CxGr-AMR: Extending Abstract Meaning Representation Beyond Lexically Anchored Relations with Constructional Rolesets
%A Bonial, Claire
%A Post, Claire Benet
%A Van Eecke, Paul
%A Beuls, Katrien
%A Tayyar Madabushi, Harish
%Y Zhao, Jin
%Y Post, Claire Benet
%Y Hoefer, Elizabeth
%S Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026) @ LREC 2026
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F bonial-etal-2026-cxgr
%X Current Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotation guidelines, which largely tie argument structure to lexical rolesets, systematically misrepresent cases in which key semantic roles stem from clause-level structure rather than the verb, leaving these meanings either unnaturally attached, incorrect, or unexpressed. To address this limitation, we present CxGr-AMR, a novel extension of AMR that captures the semantics of various types of phrasal constructions, including argument structure constructions. We first examine how such cases are handled under current Standard-AMR guidelines and show that these analyses are often inadequate when constructionally contributed roles clash with those assigned by the verb. We then provide a theoretical grounding for our CxGr-AMR rolesets that lay out the relationship between the syntactic signatures of constructional slots and particular semantic roles associated with them. Finally, we develop an annotation-expert-in-the-loop pipeline for the semi-automatic annotation of sentences, and release a dataset containing 355 instances of phrasal constructions annotated with both Standard and CxGr-AMR.
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%P 1-19
Markdown (Informal)
[CxGr-AMR: Extending Abstract Meaning Representation Beyond Lexically Anchored Relations with Constructional Rolesets](https://aclanthology.org/2026.dmr-1.1/) (Bonial et al., DMR 2026)
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