The Alexa Meaning Representation Language

Thomas Kollar, Danielle Berry, Lauren Stuart, Karolina Owczarzak, Tagyoung Chung, Lambert Mathias, Michael Kayser, Bradford Snow, Spyros Matsoukas


Abstract
This paper introduces a meaning representation for spoken language understanding. The Alexa meaning representation language (AMRL), unlike previous approaches, which factor spoken utterances into domains, provides a common representation for how people communicate in spoken language. AMRL is a rooted graph, links to a large-scale ontology, supports cross-domain queries, fine-grained types, complex utterances and composition. A spoken language dataset has been collected for Alexa, which contains ∼20k examples across eight domains. A version of this meaning representation was released to developers at a trade show in 2016.
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N18-3022
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers)
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans - Louisiana
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Srinivas Bangalore, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Yunyao Li
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
177–184
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-3022
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-3022
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Thomas Kollar, Danielle Berry, Lauren Stuart, Karolina Owczarzak, Tagyoung Chung, Lambert Mathias, Michael Kayser, Bradford Snow, and Spyros Matsoukas. 2018. The Alexa Meaning Representation Language. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers), pages 177–184, New Orleans - Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The Alexa Meaning Representation Language (Kollar et al., NAACL 2018)
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