@inproceedings{sun-etal-2023-umr,
title = "{UMR} annotation of {C}hinese Verb compounds and related constructions",
author = "Sun, Haibo and
Zhu, Yifan and
Zhao, Jin and
Xue, Nianwen",
editor = "Bonial, Claire and
Tayyar Madabushi, Harish",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)",
month = mar,
year = "2023",
address = "Washington, D.C.",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.cxgsnlp-1.9",
pages = "75--84",
abstract = "This paper discusses the challenges of annotating the predicate-argument structure of Chinese verb compounds in Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR), a recent meaning representation framework that extends Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) to cross-linguistic settings. The key issue is to decide whether to annotate the argument structure of a verb compound as a whole, or to annotate the argument structure of their component verbs as well as the relations between them. We examine different types of Chinese verb compounds, and propose how to annotate them based on the principle of compositionality, level of grammaticalization, and productivity of component verbs. We propose a solution to the practical problem of having to define the semantic roles for Chinese verb compounds that are quite open-ended by separating compositional verb compounds from verb compounds that are non-compositional or have grammaticalized verb components. For compositional verb compounds, instead of annotating the argument structure of the verb compound as a whole, we annotate the argument structure of the component verbs as well as the semantic relations between them as creating an exhaustive list of such verb compounds is infeasible. Verb compounds with grammaticalized verb components also tend to be productive and we represent grammaticalized verb compounds as either attributes of the primary verb or as relations.",
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%T UMR annotation of Chinese Verb compounds and related constructions
%A Sun, Haibo
%A Zhu, Yifan
%A Zhao, Jin
%A Xue, Nianwen
%Y Bonial, Claire
%Y Tayyar Madabushi, Harish
%S Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
%D 2023
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Washington, D.C.
%F sun-etal-2023-umr
%X This paper discusses the challenges of annotating the predicate-argument structure of Chinese verb compounds in Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR), a recent meaning representation framework that extends Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) to cross-linguistic settings. The key issue is to decide whether to annotate the argument structure of a verb compound as a whole, or to annotate the argument structure of their component verbs as well as the relations between them. We examine different types of Chinese verb compounds, and propose how to annotate them based on the principle of compositionality, level of grammaticalization, and productivity of component verbs. We propose a solution to the practical problem of having to define the semantic roles for Chinese verb compounds that are quite open-ended by separating compositional verb compounds from verb compounds that are non-compositional or have grammaticalized verb components. For compositional verb compounds, instead of annotating the argument structure of the verb compound as a whole, we annotate the argument structure of the component verbs as well as the semantic relations between them as creating an exhaustive list of such verb compounds is infeasible. Verb compounds with grammaticalized verb components also tend to be productive and we represent grammaticalized verb compounds as either attributes of the primary verb or as relations.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.cxgsnlp-1.9
%P 75-84
Markdown (Informal)
[UMR annotation of Chinese Verb compounds and related constructions](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cxgsnlp-1.9) (Sun et al., CxGsNLP-SyntaxFest 2023)
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