Spatial AMR: Expanded Spatial Annotation in the Context of a Grounded Minecraft Corpus

Julia Bonn, Martha Palmer, Zheng Cai, Kristin Wright-Bettner


Abstract
This paper presents an expansion to the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotation schema that captures fine-grained semantically and pragmatically derived spatial information in grounded corpora. We describe a new lexical category conceptualization and set of spatial annotation tools built in the context of a multimodal corpus consisting of 170 3D structure-building dialogues between a human architect and human builder in Minecraft. Minecraft provides a particularly beneficial spatial relation-elicitation environment because it automatically tracks locations and orientations of objects and avatars in the space according to an absolute Cartesian coordinate system. Through a two-step process of sentence-level and document-level annotation designed to capture implicit information, we leverage these coordinates and bearings in the AMRs in combination with spatial framework annotation to ground the spatial language in the dialogues to absolute space.
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2020.lrec-1.601
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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4883–4892
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English
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Julia Bonn, Martha Palmer, Zheng Cai, and Kristin Wright-Bettner. 2020. Spatial AMR: Expanded Spatial Annotation in the Context of a Grounded Minecraft Corpus. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4883–4892, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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