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Annotation of Tense and Aspect Semantics for Sentential AMR

What it is about

AMR leaves out tense and aspect, because their marks are inflections and articles, which the design deliberately skips. The paper adds a coarse layer for finite predications. Each finite predication gets one of four time values: event time before, up to, at or after speech time. It also gets aspect values: static or dynamic, habitual or episodic, and telic or atelic. The cues come from the morphosyntax of the finite verb and from lexical aspect. The example is a sentence that current AMR cannot tell apart from its past-tense opposite. The paper also surveys TimeML, situation entity labelling and the RED and CaTeRS schemes, and it discusses constructions that need special care, found in a small pilot annotation. The text gives design and examples, not agreement scores.

Ideas

For Mova

The coarse scheme fits Mova's enum-and-count design: four time values and three binary aspects are small enough to be exact enums. The features map onto UD FEATS on meta tokens, which open problem 5 asks for. The Hebrew check in I2 bears on tools/translate/src/hebrew.rs.

Topics: Machine translation

Cite

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

@inproceedings{donatelli2018annotation,
  title = {{Annotation of Tense and Aspect Semantics for Sentential AMR}},
  author = {Donatelli, Lucia and Regan, Michael and Croft, William and Schneider, Nathan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/W18-4912/}
}

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