Martha Palmer · page 2
Papers
- Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar (2010 · 17 citations)
The authors test whether ideas from Construction Grammar (CxG) can help improve the understanding of unfamiliar predicates. - SemLink 2.0: Chasing Lexical Resources (2021 · 16 citations)
SemLink maps between PropBank rolesets and arguments, VerbNet classes and thematic roles, FrameNet frames and frame elements, and OntoNotes sense groups, and holds a corpus of verb instances tagged in all of them. - Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility (2023 · 15 citations)
A reference paper that lists how AMR structures map onto UMR, the typologically motivated successor to AMR. - Cross-document coreference: An approach to capturing coreference without context (2019 · 15 citations)
The paper addresses a basic difficulty in building patient timelines from clinical text. Deciding whether two mentions corefer usually relies on a shared discourse context, but linking mentions across separate notes means reasoning over narratives that do not form one coherent text. The authors extended the THYME… - Enriching lexical transfer with cross-linguistic semantic features or how to do interlingua without interlingua (1997 · 12 citations)
The paper proposes lexico-structural transfer as an alternative to an interlingua. The source and target are dependency trees in Meaning-Text Theory's deep syntactic level, and transfer rules relate lexemes together with their syntax. The test case is motion verbs: English "swim across the lake" becomes French… - Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation (2016 · 10 citations)
The paper describes how PropBank's guidelines for light verb constructions (make an offer, take a bath, have a nap, give a kiss) were revised. - Linear Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution with X-AMR (2024 · 9 citations)
Resolving event coreference by comparing every pair of mentions scales quadratically. This becomes very costly with large corpora and especially with LLM prompting. The authors replace pairwise scoring with a compact symbolic representation called X-AMR, a cross-document extension of Abstract Meaning Representation.… - Semantic Tagging for the Penn Treebank (2000 · 8 citations)
The paper describes a pilot in which running Penn Treebank text is tagged with WordNet senses, following the method of the SENSEVAL exercise. - UMR Annotation of Multiword Expressions (2023 · 7 citations)
This is a guideline paper. It runs no experiment and reports no counts. UMR, which is based on AMR, maps words to concepts. The authors define a multiword expression (MWE) operationally: several words that together form one concept. They sort MWEs into three groups. Fixed MWEs are unmodifiable word sequences, such as… - Dependency Dialogue Acts — Annotation Scheme and Case Study (2023 · 6 citations)
Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA) is an annotation scheme for multi-party, multi-threaded talk (classroom group work, chat). - The DARPA Wikidata Overlay: Wikidata as an ontology for natural language processing (2023 · 6 citations)
Wikidata is the largest crowdsourced knowledge base about the world (over 102 million items). However, it is entity-centric. Events there are mostly named by deverbal nouns, and their typical participants (who acts, toward whom the action is directed) are not linked to these events. This is insufficient for… - Annotation Difficulties in Natural Language Inference (2021 · 5 citations)
Modern models score very well on popular NLI benchmarks, yet they generalize poorly and ignore the fact that people often disagree about inference labels. - A corpus of preposition supersenses in English web reviews (2016 · 3 citations)
English prepositions are extremely frequent and highly polysemous, yet earlier annotated resources for their meaning cover only a few dozen common types, sample isolated tokens, or lack inter-annotator agreement figures.
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