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title: "From Syntax to Semantics — Pagano 2026"
description: "A short beginner's tutorial on Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR), the cross-linguistic successor to AMR. The aim is to show how Universal Dependencies…"
authors: ["Adriana S. Pagano", "Magali Sanches Duran", "Federica Gamba"]
year: 2026
venue: "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 2"
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# From Syntax to Semantics: Introducing UMR for NLP Annotation

**Authors:** Adriana S. Pagano, Magali Sanches Duran, [Federica Gamba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/federica-gamba/) · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** PROPOR 2026 (17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese), Vol. 2 **Link:** [aclanthology.org/2026.propor-2.41](https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-2.41/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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**Authors (3)**

1. Adriana S. Pagano
2. Magali Sanches Duran
3. Federica Gamba

Citations and author metrics: OpenAlex, ; authors with the same name are not always told apart.

## What it is about

A short beginner's tutorial on Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR), the cross-linguistic successor to AMR. The aim is to show how Universal Dependencies structures guide the building of minimal UMR graphs, with Portuguese examples. Participants are expected to leave knowing what UMR is, how it relates to syntax and semantic roles, how to draw a minimal graph, and how Portuguese UD treebanks can support annotation. The tutorial starts from the basics of UD (heads, dependents and relation labels) and then shows how those relations guide the choice of UMR roles and concepts. The authors come from translation studies, computational linguistics and corpus annotation, and the examples are drawn from Portuguese treebanks, not English. The paper is a teaching abstract with author notes. The text available for this card has no worked examples, no data and no measurements, so the summary above is limited to what the abstract states.

## Ideas

None for Mova. The text available is the abstract and the author notes, with no worked examples or results to test. The UD-to-UMR conversion that the tutorial teaches is covered in measured form by `gamba-2025-bootstrapping-umrs-universal-dependencies-scalable`.

## For Mova

Nothing to apply from this tutorial alone. Its subject is the UD-to-UMR step, which matters for `tools/roundtrip` and for the frames in `prag`. The measured version of that step is the reference for any work in that direction.

Topics: [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/)

## Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{pagano2026syntax,
  title = {{From Syntax to Semantics: Introducing UMR for NLP Annotation}},
  author = {Pagano, Adriana S. and Duran, Magali Sanches and Gamba, Federica},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 2},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-2.41/}
}
```

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