Comparison by Conversion: Reverse-Engineering UCCA from Syntax and Lexical Semantics

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  • Hershcovich, Daniel
  • Nathan Schneider
  • Dotan Dvir
  • Jakob Prange
  • Miryam Anne Noëlle de Lhoneux
  • Omri Abend
Building robust natural language understanding systems will require a clear characterization of whether and how various linguistic meaning representations complement each other. To perform a systematic comparative analysis, we evaluate the mapping between meaning representations from different frameworks using two complementary methods: (i) a rule-based converter, and (ii) a supervised delexicalized parser that parses to one framework using only information from the other as features. We apply these methods to convert the STREUSLE corpus (with syntactic and lexical semantic annotations) to UCCA (a graph-structured full-sentence meaning representation). Both methods yield surprisingly accurate target representations, close to fully supervised UCCA parser quality—indicating that UCCA annotations are partially redundant with STREUSLE annotations. Despite this substantial convergence between frameworks, we find several important areas of divergence.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistic
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2020
Pages2947–2966
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Online, Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 8 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
LocationOnline
LandSpain
ByBarcelona
Periode08/12/202013/12/2020

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