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Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese Language

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2022)

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Abstract

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic formalism that has been widely adopted in the area for semantic parsing. We present in this paper our contribution to the task for Portuguese. We investigated semantic parsing methods of different paradigms, producing state of the art results for this language. We also introduced the first AMR-annotated corpus for Portuguese, a novel and better semantic parsing evaluation measure, and a new AMR-based alignment method.

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The authors are grateful to USP Research Office (PRP #668), USP/IBM/FAPESP Center for Artificial Intelligence (#2019/07665-4), and Instituto Federal do Piauí.

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  1. Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC), Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Rafael Torres Anchiêta & Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

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  1. Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil

    Vládia Pinheiro

  2. CiTIUS - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Pablo Gamallo

  3. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Raquel Amaro

  4. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Carolina Scarton

  5. INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

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  6. Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

    Diego Silva

  7. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Catarina Magro

  8. Sentimonitor, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Anchiêta, R.T., Pardo, T.A.S. (2022). Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese Language. In: Pinheiro, V., et al. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98305-5_41

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