Comparing Czech and English AMRs
Jan Hajič, Ondřej Bojar, Zdeňka Urešová · 2014
This paper describes in detail the differences between Czech and English annotation using the Abstract Meaning Representation scheme, which stresses the use of ontologies (and semantically-oriented verbal lexicons) and relations based on meaning or ontological content rather than semantics or syntax.The basic "slogan" of the AMR specification clearly states that AMR is not an interlingua, yet it is expected that many relations as well as structures constructed from these relations will be similar or even identical across languages.In our study, we have investigated 100 sentences in English and their translations into Czech, annotated manually by AMRs, with the goal to describe the differences and if possible, to classify them into two main categories: those which are merely convention differences and thus can be unified by changing such conventions in the AMR annotation guidelines, and those which are so deeply rooted in the language structure that the level of abstraction which is inherent in the current AMR scheme does not allow for such unification.