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Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation to Parse English into Abstract Meaning Representation

Computation and Language 2015-04-29 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present a parser for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). We treat English-to-AMR conversion within the framework of string-to-tree, syntax-based machine translation (SBMT). To make this work, we transform the AMR structure into a form suitable for the mechanics of SBMT and useful for modeling. We introduce an AMR-specific language model and add data and features drawn from semantic resources. Our resulting AMR parser improves upon state-of-the-art results by 7 Smatch points.

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@article{arxiv.1504.06665,
  title  = {Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation to Parse English into Abstract Meaning Representation},
  author = {Michael Pust and Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu and Jonathan May},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06665},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures

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