Mapping Between English Strings and Reentrant Semantic Graphs

Fabienne Braune, Daniel Bauer, Kevin Knight


Abstract
We investigate formalisms for capturing the relation between semantic graphs and English strings. Semantic graph corpora have spurred recent interest in graph transduction formalisms, but it is not yet clear whether such formalisms are a good fit for natural language data―in particular, for describing how semantic reentrancies correspond to English pronouns, zero pronouns, reflexives, passives, nominalizations, etc. We introduce a data set that focuses on these problems, we build grammars to capture the graph/string relation in this data, and we evaluate those grammars for conciseness and accuracy.
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L14-1061
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4493–4498
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1080_Paper.pdf
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Fabienne Braune, Daniel Bauer, and Kevin Knight. 2014. Mapping Between English Strings and Reentrant Semantic Graphs. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4493–4498, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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