Annotating Abstract Meaning Representations for Spanish
Noelia Migueles-Abraira, Rodrigo Agerri, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza · 2018
Until recently, semantic annotations for different semantic phenomena were independent and unconnected.The Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) project arised out of the need to create a broad-coverage semantic bank containing a unified set of semantic information represented in simple, single-rooted, easy-to-read structures.Because the semantic representation language proposed in AMR is biased towards English, annotating AMR structures for other languages, such as Spanish, is not a trivial task.In this paper we propose a linguistic method that we believe would help lay the groundwork for building a large semantic bank for Spanish and would guide those who would like to implement it for other languages.Thus, we analyze a broad spectrum of Spanish linguistic phenomena to come up with suggestions to adapt the current guidelines so that it is possible to annotate AMRs for Spanish.As a result of this work, we make available the first public online repository containing manually annotated Spanish AMRs.