Preparing SNACS for Subjects and Objects

Adi Shalev, Jena D. Hwang, Nathan Schneider, Vivek Srikumar, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport

The First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR), 2019.

Abstract

Research on adpositions and possessives in multiple languages has led to a small inven- tory of general-purpose meaning classes that disambiguate tokens. Importantly, that work has argued for a principled separation of the se- mantic role in a scene from the function coded by morphosyntax. Here, we ask whether this approach can be generalized beyond ad- positions and possessives to cover all scene participants—including subjects and objects— directly, without reference to a frame lexicon. We present new guidelines for English and the results of an interannotator agreement study.

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@inproceedings{shalev2019preparing,
  author = {Shalev, Adi and Hwang, Jena D. and Schneider, Nathan and Srikumar, Vivek and Abend, Omri and Rappoport, Ari},
  title = {{Preparing SNACS for Subjects and Objects}},
  booktitle = {The First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR)},
  year = {2019}
}