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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

In cross-lingual Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing, researchers develop models that project sentences from various languages onto their AMRs to capture their essential semantic structures: given a sentence in any language, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sarah Uhrig , Yoalli Rezepka Garcia , Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

Abstract meaning representation (AMR) is a semantic formalism used to represent the meaning of sentences as directed acyclic graphs. In this paper, we describe how real digital dictionaries can be embedded into AMR directed graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nicolas Goulet , Alexandre Blondin Massé , Moussa Abdendi

Automatic open-domain dialogue evaluation has attracted increasing attention, yet remains challenging due to the complexity of assessing response appropriateness. Traditional evaluation metrics, typically trained with true positive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Dong Liu , Chen Tang , Liang Zhan , Chenghua Lin

With an ever increasing size of text present on the Internet, automatic summary generation remains an important problem for natural language understanding. In this work we explore a novel full-fledged pipeline for text summarization with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Shibhansh Dohare , Harish Karnick , Vivek Gupta

The Smatch metric is a popular method for evaluating graph distances, as is necessary, for instance, to assess the performance of semantic graph parsing systems. However, we observe some issues in the metric that jeopardize meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz

Models based on large-pretrained language models, such as S(entence)BERT, provide effective and efficient sentence embeddings that show high correlation to human similarity ratings, but lack interpretability. On the other hand, graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

We present algorithms for aligning components of Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs to spans in English sentences. We leverage unsupervised learning in combination with heuristics, taking the best of both worlds from previous AMR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Austin Blodgett , Nathan Schneider

We present a semantic parser for Abstract Meaning Representations which learns to parse strings into tree representations of the compositional structure of an AMR graph. This allows us to use standard neural techniques for supertagging and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Jonas Groschwitz , Matthias Lindemann , Meaghan Fowlie , Mark Johnson , Alexander Koller

Symbolic sentence meaning representations, such as AMR (Abstract Meaning Representation) provide expressive and structured semantic graphs that act as intermediates that simplify downstream NLP tasks. However, the instruction-following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Peiran Yao , Kostyantyn Guzhva , Denilson Barbosa

Although neural models have achieved competitive results in dialogue systems, they have shown limited ability in representing core semantics, such as ignoring important entities. To this end, we exploit Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xuefeng Bai , Yulong Chen , Linfeng Song , Yue Zhang

We present the Granular AMR Parsing Evaluation Suite (GrAPES), a challenge set for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing with accompanying evaluation metrics. AMR parsers now obtain high scores on the standard AMR evaluation metric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jonas Groschwitz , Shay B. Cohen , Lucia Donatelli , Meaghan Fowlie

Scene graph is structured semantic representation that can be modeled as a form of graph from images and texts. Image-based scene graph generation research has been actively conducted until recently, whereas text-based scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Woo Suk Choi , Yu-Jung Heo , Byoung-Tak Zhang

It is intuitive that semantic representations can be useful for machine translation, mainly because they can help in enforcing meaning preservation and handling data sparsity (many sentences correspond to one meaning) of machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Linfeng Song , Daniel Gildea , Yue Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Jinsong Su

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing has experienced a notable growth in performance in the last two years, due both to the impact of transfer learning and the development of novel architectures specific to AMR. At the same time,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Young-Suk Lee , Ramon Fernandez Astudillo , Tahira Naseem , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Radu Florian , Salim Roukos

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) parsing aims to extract an abstract semantic graph from a given sentence. The sequence-to-sequence approaches, which linearize the semantic graph into a sequence of nodes and edges and generate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Bofei Gao , Liang Chen , Peiyi Wang , Zhifang Sui , Baobao Chang

Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many cross-lingual and mono-lingual NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-level approach to "equivalence," despite previous evidence that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Shira Wein , Zhuxin Wang , Nathan Schneider

We develop a novel technique to parse English sentences into Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) using SEARN, a Learning to Search approach, by modeling the concept and the relation learning in a unified framework. We evaluate our parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Sudha Rao , Yogarshi Vyas , Hal Daume , Philip Resnik

This paper introduces a novel aligner for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs that can scale cross-lingually, and is thus capable of aligning units and spans in sentences of different languages. Our approach leverages modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Abelardo Carlos Martínez Lorenzo , Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot , Roberto Navigli

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