--- title: "Mapping AMR to UMR — Bonn 2023" description: "A reference paper that lists how AMR structures map onto UMR, the typologically motivated successor to AMR. 1 reference, cited by 15 papers here." authors: ["Julia Bonn", "Skatje Myers", "Jens E. L. Van Gysel", "Lukas Denk", "Meagan Vigus", "Jin Zhao", "Andrew Cowell", "William Croft", "Jan Hajič", "James H. Martin", "Alexis Palmer", "Martha Palmer", "James Pustejovsky", "Zdenka Urešová", "Rosa Vallejos", "Nianwen Xue"] year: 2023 venue: "Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8/" licence: "CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bonn-2023-mapping-amr-umr-resources-adapting/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bonn-2023-mapping-amr-umr-resources-adapting/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2023/page/6/) / Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility # Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility **Authors:** [Julia Bonn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-bonn/), [Skatje Myers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/skatje-myers/), Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Lukas Denk, Meagan Vigus, [Jin Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-zhao/), [Andrew Cowell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-cowell/), [William Croft](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-croft/), [Jan Hajič](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-hajic/), [James H. Martin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-martin/), [Alexis Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-palmer/), [Martha Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/), [James Pustejovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-pustejovsky/), [Zdenka Urešová](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zdenka-uresova/), Rosa Vallejos and [Nianwen Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nianwen-xue/) · **Year:** 2023 · **Venue:** TLT 2023 (Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, GURT/SyntaxFest) **Link:** [aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8](https://aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) [**15** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bonn-2023-mapping-amr-umr-resources-adapting/cited-by/) of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read · [Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)](https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.tlt-1/) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8/) - [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8.pdf) **Authors (16)** 1. Julia Bonn [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/19331592) 2. Skatje Myers [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1380290459) 3. Jens E. L. Van Gysel [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1738660313) 4. Lukas Denk [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/4698577) 5. Meagan Vigus [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/51882643) 6. Jin Zhao [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2142154911) 7. Andrew Cowell [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2070241255) 8. William Croft [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/144456145) 9. Jan Hajič [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/144002335) 10. James H. Martin [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2086466630) 11. Alexis Palmer [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/6214002) 12. Martha Palmer [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/145755155) 13. James Pustejovsky [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1707726) 14. Zdenka Urešová [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/3344673) 15. Rosa Vallejos [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/143886116) 16. Nianwen Xue [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1702849) Citations and author metrics: OpenAlex, ; authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about A reference paper that lists how AMR structures map onto UMR, the typologically motivated successor to AMR. It goes through the general roles, rolesets and abstract concepts. Some AMR roles are kept, some are renamed or narrowed, and some are split. For example, the AMR destination role is split into goal and recipient by animacy, and the source role into three roles for start point, material and source. Every role in UMR has an inverse and a reifying roleset. Abstract rolesets such as have-rel-role-91 and include-91 are mapped to UMR counterparts. The paper gives illustrated figures and examples from Czech and Chinese corpora. It argues that much of the conversion of an AMR corpus into UMR can be done deterministically, and that the hard cases are the new UMR coverage for tense, aspect, modality and scope. There are no experiments. ## Ideas - I1. Role splits as rules. Write the role splits, such as destination into goal or recipient by animacy, as deterministic rules over an enum of roles. Count how often each split fires on the Bible pairs before anything is learned. - I2. Abstract predicates as enums. Keep abstract concepts such as identity-91 as enum values in the meta-world, so the encoder knows they are not words to output. This makes the function-word question in open problem 4 concrete. - I3. Derived inverses. Every UMR role has an inverse. Store only the forward edge in the meta-world and derive the inverse, which may cut the size of the delta tables. ## For Mova The relevant part is the role inventory and how it is split. In Mova, these are the relation labels of the meta-world, in `tools/translate/src/meta.rs`. Roles are enums, and the rules are compared as integers, as the project's conventions require. The split and inverse rules bear on open problem 4 (function words and boundaries as features) and on the coarse relation set in open problem 1. Topics[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) ## Cite Cite as Julia Bonn, Skatje Myers, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Lukas Denk, Meagan Vigus, Jin Zhao, Andrew Cowell, William Croft, Jan Hajič, James H. Martin, Alexis Palmer, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovsky, Zdenka Urešová, Rosa Vallejos and Nianwen Xue. 2023. Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility. Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023). The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{bonn2023mapping, title = {{Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility}}, author = {Julia Bonn, Skatje Myers, Jens E. L. {Van Gysel}, Lukas Denk, Meagan Vigus, Jin Zhao, Andrew Cowell, William Croft, Jan Hajič, James H. Martin, Alexis Palmer, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovsky, Zdenka Urešová, Rosa Vallejos and Nianwen Xue}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.tlt-1.8/} } ``` - [← previous HeRo: RoBERTa and Longformer Hebrew Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shalumov-2023-hero-roberta-longformer-hebrew-language/) - [next → When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gubelmann-2023-when-truth-matters-addressing-pragmatic/) - [↑ back to papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2023/page/6/) ## References 1 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. Rafael Anchiêta and Thiago Pardo. 2018. Towards AMR-BR: A SemBank for Brazilian Portuguese language. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Rafael+Anchi%C3%AAta+and+Thiago+Pardo%2E+2018%2E+Towards+AMR%2DBR%3A+A+SemBank+for+Brazilian+Portuguese+language%2E+In+Proceedings+of+the+Eleventh+International+Conference+on+Language+Resources+and+Evaluation+%28LREC+)