Quantification in Abstract Meaning Representation

Kiyong Lee, Chongwon Park


Abstract
Quantification is common in text, but it is underrepresented in AMR. Quantification also stresses the common conjunctive interpretation of AMR graphs, since universal quantification introduces scope-taking structure and variable binding that cannot be captured as a flat list of conjuncts. We propose an enriched AMR that supports quantificational meaning while keeping AMR’s graph backbone. At the predicate level, we add QuantML features, such as domain restriction, determinacy, distributivity, and involvement. At the discourse level, we add contextual constraints that encode scope and other discourse-sensitive conditions. The two levels follow the UMR architecture and are linked by shared identifiers. We map the enriched graphs to two-block logical forms: a minimal model of events and participants, plus a constraint block that relates them.
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2026.slide-1.9
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
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May
Year:
2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Erhard Hinrichs, Joakim Nivre, Petya Osenova, James Pustejovsky, Claus Zinn
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SLiDE | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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104–113
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https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-slide-09
DOI:
10.63317/5nkejg7f845v
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Kiyong Lee and Chongwon Park. 2026. Quantification in Abstract Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE), pages 104–113, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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