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Title: GLAMR: Augmenting AMR with GL-VerbNet Event Structure
This paper introduces GLAMR, an Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) interpretation of Generative Lexicon (GL) semantic components. It includes a structured subeventual interpretation of linguistic predicates, and encoding of the opposition structure of property changes of event arguments. Both of these features are recently encoded in VerbNet (VN), and form the scaffolding for the semantic form associated with VN frame files. We develop a new syntax, concepts, and roles for subevent structure based on VN for connecting subevents to atomic predicates. Our proposed extension is compatible with current AMR specification. We also present an approach to automatically augment AMR graphs by inserting subevent structure of the predicates and identifying the subevent arguments from the semantic roles. A pilot annotation of GLAMR graphs of 65 documents (486 sentences), based on procedural texts as a source, is presented as a public dataset. The annotation includes subevents, argument property change, and document-level anaphoric links. Finally, we provide baseline models for converting text to GLAMR and vice versa, along with the application of GLAMR for generating enriched paraphrases with details on subevent transformation and arguments that are not present in the surface form of the texts.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2326985
PAR ID:
10599010
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Date Published:
ISBN:
978-2-493814-10-4
Page Range / eLocation ID:
7746–7759
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Turin, Italy
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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