The Parallel Meaning Bank: Towards a Multilingual Corpus of Translations Annotated with Compositional Meaning Representations

What it is about

The Parallel Meaning Bank (PMB) annotates English texts with compositional meaning representations based on Discourse Representation Theory, and projects the annotation to translations through word alignment. The assumption is that a translation keeps the meaning, so one annotation serves all its versions. The English annotation runs through segmentation, CCG parsing, semantic tags, symbolisation and lexical semantics, with manual correction at each layer. The corpus at the time held over 11 million tokens in 285,154 documents from twelve sources, among them subtitle-style short texts, news, Sherlock Holmes stories and the Bible. About 72% of documents have a German version, 14% Dutch and 42% Italian. The paper states three goals: a test bed for cross-lingual compositional semantics, data for parsers in other languages, and the detection of meaning shifts that translators make on purpose.

Ideas

• I1. Compare projected meaning across translations: after projection, check whether the meaning of each translation matches the English one. Mismatches counted per author are the author deltas that Mova should learn; this matches the DELTA rule of the translator.
• I2. Keep the tier of each reading (gold, silver, bronze) and compute the residual on the gold tier only, as the paper's per-layer tables do.
• I3. Use verse-aligned Bible pairs to find meaning shifts, as the paper's third goal suggests. Labelled shifts give a test set for the delta that is held out from the standard.

For Mova

The code is tools/translate/meta.rs and the author delta. I1 and I3 address open problem 8 (style deltas) and open problem 6 (the standard leans to the Bibles). The paper's CCG and DRT pipeline is not used by Mova.

Topics: Machine translation

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. arXiv 1702.03964

@inproceedings{abzianidze2017parallel,
  title = {{The Parallel Meaning Bank: Towards a Multilingual Corpus of Translations Annotated with Compositional Meaning Representations}},
  author = {Abzianidze, Lasha and Bjerva, Johannes and Evang, Kilian and Haagsma, Hessel and Noord, Rik van and Ludmann, Pierre and Nguyen, Duc-Duy and Bos, Johan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers},
  year = {2017},
  eprint = {1702.03964},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03964}
}

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