Hana Hledíková
2025
Comparing Manual and Automatic UMRs for Czech and Latin
Jan Štěpánek
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Daniel Zeman
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Markéta Lopatková
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Federica Gamba
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Hana Hledíková
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) is a semantic framework designed to represent the meaning of texts in a structured and interpretable manner. In this paper, we evaluate the results of the automatic conversion of existing resources to UMR, focusing on Czech (PDT-C treebank) and Latin (LDT treebank). We present both quantitative and qualitative evaluations based on a comparison between manually and automatically generated UMR structures for a sample of Czech and Latin sentences. The findings indicate comparable results of the automatic conversion for both languages. The key challenges prove to be the higher level of semantic abstraction required by UMR and the fact that UMR allows for capturing semantic structure in multiple ways, potentially with varying levels of granularity.