Refining Implicit Argument Annotation for UCCA

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Predicate-argument structure analysis is a central component in meaning representations of text. The fact that some arguments are not explicitly mentioned in a sentence gives rise to ambiguity in language understanding, and renders it difficult for machines to interpret text correctly. However, only few resources represent implicit roles for NLU, and existing studies in NLP only make coarse distinctions between categories of arguments omitted from linguistic form. This paper proposes a typology for fine-grained implicit argument annotation on top of Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation’s foundational layer. The proposed implicit argument categorisation is driven by theories of implicit role interpretation and consists of six types: Deictic, Generic, Genre-based, Type-identifiable, Non-specific, and Iterated-set. We exemplify our design by revisiting part of the UCCA EWT corpus, providing a new dataset annotated with the refinement layer, and making a comparative analysis with other schemes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2020
Pages41-52
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event2nd International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations - Barcelona (Online), Spain
Duration: 13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

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Conference2nd International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
LandSpain
ByBarcelona (Online)
Periode13/12/202013/12/2020

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