Parsing Meaning Representations: Is Easier Always Better?

Zi Lin, Nianwen Xue


Abstract
The parsing accuracy varies a great deal for different meaning representations. In this paper, we compare the parsing performances between Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), and provide an in-depth analysis of what factors contributed to the discrepancy in their parsing accuracy. By crystalizing the trade-off between representation expressiveness and ease of automatic parsing, we hope our results can help inform the design of the next-generation meaning representations.
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W19-3304
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Nianwen Xue, William Croft, Jan Hajic, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovksy
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DMR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
34–43
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3304
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3304
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Zi Lin and Nianwen Xue. 2019. Parsing Meaning Representations: Is Easier Always Better?. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 34–43, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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