Made for Each Other: Broad-Coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses

Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, Omri Abend


Abstract
Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA; Abend and Rappoport, 2013) is a typologically-informed, broad-coverage semantic annotation scheme that describes coarse-grained predicate-argument structure but currently lacks semantic roles. We argue that lexicon-free annotation of the semantic roles marked by prepositions, as formulated by Schneider et al. (2018), is complementary and suitable for integration within UCCA. We show empirically for English that the schemes, though annotated independently, are compatible and can be combined in a single semantic graph. A comparison of several approaches to parsing the integrated representation lays the groundwork for future research on this task.
Anthology ID:
K19-1017
Volume:
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Mohit Bansal, Aline Villavicencio
Venue:
CoNLL
SIG:
SIGNLL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
174–185
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/K19-1017
DOI:
10.18653/v1/K19-1017
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Cite (ACL):
Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, and Omri Abend. 2019. Made for Each Other: Broad-Coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 174–185, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Made for Each Other: Broad-Coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses (Prange et al., CoNLL 2019)
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 K19-1017.Supplementary_Material.pdf
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Code
 jakpra/ucca-streusle
Data
STREUSLEUniversal Dependencies