Assessing the Cross-linguistic Utility of Abstract Meaning Representation

S Wein, N Schneider - Computational Linguistics, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Semantic representations capture the meaning of a text. Abstract Meaning Representation
(AMR), a type of semantic representation, focuses on predicate-argument structure and …

Classifying divergences in cross-lingual AMR pairs

S Wein, N Schneider - Proceedings of The Joint 15th Linguistic …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Translation divergences are varied and widespread, challenging approaches that rely on
parallel text. To annotate translation divergences, we propose a schema grounded in the …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining the distribution of implicit means of misrepresentation: A case study on Italian immigration discourse

S Coschignano, G Minnema, C Zanchi - Journal of Pragmatics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study analyzes Fillmore's frames in a large corpus of Italian news headlines concerning
migrations, dating from 2013 to 2021 and taken from newspapers of diverse ideological …

A flexible tool for a qualia-enriched FrameNet: the FrameNet Brasil WebTool

TT Torrent, EES Matos, AD Costa, MA Gamonal… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper we present a database management and annotation tool for running an
enriched FrameNet database, the FrameNet Brasil WebTool. We demonstrate how the entity …

More frequent verbs are associated with more diverse valency frames: Efficient principles at the lexicon-grammar interface

S Tao, L Donatelli, M Hahn - … of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
A substantial body of work has provided evidence that the lexicons of natural languages are
organized to support efficient communication. However, existing work has largely focused …

Domain adaptation in neural machine translation using a qualia-enriched FrameNet

AD Costa, MC Marim, EES Matos, TT Torrent - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper we present Scylla, a methodology for domain adaptation of Neural Machine
Translation (NMT) systems that make use of a multilingual FrameNet enriched with qualia …

FrameNet and typology

M Ellsworth, CF Baker, MRL Petruck - Proceedings of the Third …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Abstract FrameNet and the Multilingual FrameNet project have produced multilingual
semantic annotations of parallel texts that yield extremely fine-grained typological insights …

Frame shift prediction

ZX Yong, PD Watson, TT Torrent, O Czulo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Frame shift is a cross-linguistic phenomenon in translation which results in corresponding
pairs of linguistic material evoking different frames. The ability to predict frame shifts enables …

Lutma: A frame-making tool for collaborative FrameNet development

TT Torrent, A Lorenzi, EES Matos, F Belcavello… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents Lutma, a collaborative, semi-constrained, tutorial-based tool for
contributing frames and lexical units to the Global FrameNet initiative. The tool …

A descriptive study of metaphors and frames in the multilingual shared annotation task

M Gamonal - Proceedings of the Workshop on Dimensions of …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This work assumes that languages are structured by semantic frames, which are schematic
representations of concepts. Metaphors, on the other hand, are cognitive projections …