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Meaning Representation (AMR) is a graph-based semantic representation for sentences, composed of collections of concepts linked by semantic relations. AMR-based approaches have found success in a variety of applications, but a challenge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Fei-Tzin Lee , Chris Kedzie , Nakul Verma , Kathleen McKeown

This paper builds on previous work using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) to derive a transparent syntax-semantics interface for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing. We define new semantics for the CCG combinators that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Austin Blodgett , Nathan Schneider

Transition-based dependency parsers often need sequences of local shift and reduce operations to produce certain attachments. Correct individual decisions hence require global information about the sentence context and mistakes cause error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Peng Qi , Christopher D. Manning

We present a novel abstractive summarization framework that draws on the recent development of a treebank for the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). In this framework, the source text is parsed to a set of AMR graphs, the graphs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Fei Liu , Jeffrey Flanigan , Sam Thomson , Norman Sadeh , Noah A. Smith

This paper is dedicated to the design and evaluation of the first AMR parser tailored for clinical notes. Our objective was to facilitate the precise transformation of the clinical notes into structured AMR expressions, thereby enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jon Z. Cai , Kristin Wright-Bettner , Martha Palmer , Guergana K. Savova , James H. Martin

Transformer-based autoregressive (AR) methods have achieved appealing performance for varied sequence-to-sequence generation tasks, e.g., neural machine translation, summarization, and code generation, but suffer from low inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yisheng Xiao , Ruiyang Xu , Lijun Wu , Juntao Li , Tao Qin , Yan-Tie Liu , Min Zhang

Comparison and evaluation of graph-based representations of sentence meaning is a challenge because competing representations of the same sentence may have different number of nodes, and it is not obvious which nodes should be compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Daniel Zeman , Federica Gamba

We present a simple neural network for word alignment that builds source and target word window representations to compute alignment scores for sentence pairs. To enable unsupervised training, we use an aggregation operation that summarizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Joel Legrand , Michael Auli , Ronan Collobert

Restricted non-monotonicity has been shown beneficial for the projective arc-eager dependency parser in previous research, as posterior decisions can repair mistakes made in previous states due to the lack of information. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Daniel Fernández-González , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

This paper proposes a novel label-synchronous speech-to-text alignment technique for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The speech-to-text alignment is a problem of splitting long audio recordings with un-aligned transcripts into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yusuke Kida , Tatsuya Komatsu , Masahito Togami

As alignment links are not given between English sentences and Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs in the AMR annotation, automatic alignment becomes indispensable for training an AMR parser. Previous studies formalize it as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Chenhui Chu , Sadao Kurohashi

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) helps LLMs stay accurate, but feeding long documents into a prompt makes the model slow and expensive. This has motivated context compression, ranging from token pruning and summarization to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jianbo Li , Yi Jiang , Sendong Zhao , Bairui Hu , Haochun Wang , Bing Qin

The Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a representation for open-domain rich semantics, with potential use in fields like event extraction and machine translation. Node generation, typically done using a simple dictionary lookup, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Keenon Werling , Gabor Angeli , Christopher Manning

AMR (Abstract Meaning Representation) is a semantic formalism that encodes sentence meaning as rooted, directed, acyclic graphs, where nodes represent concepts and edges denote semantic relations. Finetuning decoder only Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shu Han Ho

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotation efforts have mostly focused on English. In order to train parsers on other languages, we propose a method based on annotation projection, which involves exploiting annotations in a source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Marco Damonte , Shay B. Cohen

In this paper we present a new and simple language-independent method for word-alignment based on the use of external sources of bilingual information such as machine translation systems. We show that the few parameters of the aligner can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-12-10 Miquel Esplà-Gomis , Felipe Sánchez-Martínez , Mikel L. Forcada

Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) is a recently developed graph-based semantic representation, which expands on Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) in a number of ways, in particular through the inclusion of document-level information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Emma Markle , Reihaneh Iranmanesh , Shira Wein

We present a novel supervised word alignment method based on cross-language span prediction. We first formalize a word alignment problem as a collection of independent predictions from a token in the source sentence to a span in the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Masaaki Nagata , Chousa Katsuki , Masaaki Nishino

Dynamic oracles provide strong supervision for training constituency parsers with exploration, but must be custom defined for a given parser's transition system. We explore using a policy gradient method as a parser-agnostic alternative. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Daniel Fried , Dan Klein

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing aims to translate sentences to semantic representation with a hierarchical structure, and is recently empowered by pretrained sequence-to-sequence models. However, there exists a gap between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Peiyi Wang , Liang Chen , Tianyu Liu , Damai Dai , Yunbo Cao , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui