@inproceedings{venant-lareau-2023-predicates,
    title = "Predicates and entities in {A}bstract {M}eaning {R}epresentation",
    author = "Venant, Antoine  and
      Lareau, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Lareau, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Washington, D.C.",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2023.depling-1.4/",
    pages = "32--41",
    abstract = "Nodes in Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) are generally thought of as neo-Davidsonian entities. We review existing translation into neo-Davidsonian representations and show that these translations inconsistently handle copula sentences. We link the problem to an asymmetry arising from a problematic handling of words with no associated PropBank frames for the underlying predicate. We introduce a method to automatically and uniformly decompose AMR nodes into an entity-part and a predicative part, which offers a consistent treatment of copula sentences and quasi- predicates such as brother or client."
}