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

Computation and Language 2019-09-20 v1

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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@article{arxiv.1909.08796,
  title  = {Made for Each Other: Broad-coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses},
  author = {Jakob Prange and Nathan Schneider and Omri Abend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.08796},
  year   = {2019}
}

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to appear at CoNLL 2019

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