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.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.depling-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Washington, D.C.
- Editors:
- Owen Rambow, François Lareau
- Venues:
- DepLing | SyntaxFest
- SIG:
- SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 32–41
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.depling-1.4
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Antoine Venant and François Lareau. 2023. Predicates and entities in Abstract Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 32–41, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Predicates and entities in Abstract Meaning Representation (Venant & Lareau, DepLing-SyntaxFest 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl-24-ws-corrections/2023.depling-1.4.pdf