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Made for Each Other: Broad-coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses

2019/09/19 by Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, Prange, Jakob +3
Computer Science · Psychology · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.08796

to appear at CoNLL 2019

arxiv created 2019/09/19 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/19 · arxiv updated 2019/09/20 · openalex created_date 2022/07/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA; Abend and Rappoport, 2013) is a typologically-informed, broad-coverage semantic annotation scheme that describes coarse-grained predicate-argument structure but currently lacks semantic roles. We argue that lexicon-free annotation of the semantic roles marked by prepositions, as formulated by Schneider et al. (2018b), is complementary and suitable for integration within UCCA. We show empirically for English that the schemes, though annotated independently, are compatible and can be combined in a single semantic graph. A comparison of several approaches to parsing the integrated representation lays the groundwork for future research on this task.

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