A Pipeline Approach for Parsing Documents into Uniform Meaning Representation Graphs

Jayeol Chun, Nianwen Xue


Abstract
Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) is the next phase of semantic formalism following Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), with added focus on inter-sentential relations allowing the representational scope of UMR to cover a full document.This, in turn, greatly increases the complexity of its parsing task with the additional requirement of capturing document-level linguistic phenomena such as coreference, modal and temporal dependencies.In order to establish a strong baseline despite the small size of recently released UMR v1.0 corpus, we introduce a pipeline model that does not require any training.At the core of our method is a two-track strategy of obtaining UMR’s sentence and document graphs separately, with the document-level triples being compiled at the token level and the sentence graph being converted from AMR graphs.By leveraging alignment between AMR and its sentence, we are able to generate the first automatic English UMR parses.
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2024.textgraphs-1.3
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Proceedings of TextGraphs-17: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dmitry Ustalov, Yanjun Gao, Alexander Panchenko, Elena Tutubalina, Irina Nikishina, Arti Ramesh, Andrey Sakhovskiy, Ricardo Usbeck, Gerald Penn, Marco Valentino
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40–52
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Jayeol Chun and Nianwen Xue. 2024. A Pipeline Approach for Parsing Documents into Uniform Meaning Representation Graphs. In Proceedings of TextGraphs-17: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, pages 40–52, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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