Augmenting Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue

Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Stephanie M. Lukin, Stephen Tratz, Ron Artstein, David Traum, Clare Voss

Abstract
We detail refinements made to Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) that make the representation more suitable for supporting a situated dialogue system, where a human remotely controls a robot for purposes of search and rescue and reconnaissance. We propose 36 augmented AMRs that capture speech acts, tense and aspect, and spatial information. This linguistic information is vital for representing important distinctions, for example whether the robot has moved, is moving, or will move. We evaluate two existing AMR parsers for their performance on dialogue data. We also outline a model for graph-to-graph conversion, in which output from AMR parsers is converted into our refined AMRs. The design scheme presented here, though task-specific, is extendable for broad coverage of speech acts using AMR in future task-independent work.
Anthology ID:
W19-3322
Volume:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
Month:
August
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Nianwen Xue, William Croft, Jan Hajic, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovksy
Venue:
DMR
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
199–210
Language:
URL:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W19-3322/
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3322
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Stephanie M. Lukin, Stephen Tratz, Ron Artstein, David Traum, and Clare Voss. 2019. Augmenting Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 199–210, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Augmenting Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue (Bonial et al., DMR 2019)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W19-3322.pdf
PDF Search Fix metadata