Separating Argument Structure from Logical Structure in AMR

Johan Bos

The Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2020)
Barcelona, Spain, December 13, 2020

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Abstract

The AMR (Abstract Meaning Representation) formalism for representing meaning of natural language sentences puts emphasis on predicate-argument structure and was not designed to deal with scope and quantifiers. By extending AMR with indices for contexts and formulating constraints on these contexts, a formalism is derived that makes correct predictions for inferences involving negation and bound variables. The attractive core predicate-argument structure of AMR is preserved. The resulting framework is similar to the meaning representations of Discourse Representation Theory employed in the Parallel Meaning Bank.

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