TY - GEN
T1 - Universal conceptual cognitive annotation (UCCA)
AU - Abend, Omri
AU - Rappoport, Ari
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Syntactic structures, by their nature, reflect first and foremost the formal constructions used for expressing meanings. This renders them sensitive to formal variation both within and across languages, and limits their value to semantic applications. We present UCCA, a novel multi-layered framework for semantic representation that aims to accommodate the semantic distinctions expressed through linguistic utterances. We demonstrate UCCA's portability across domains and languages, and its relative insensitivity to meaning-preserving syntactic variation. We also show that UCCA can be effectively and quickly learned by annotators with no linguistic background, and describe the compilation of a UCCA-annotated corpus.
AB - Syntactic structures, by their nature, reflect first and foremost the formal constructions used for expressing meanings. This renders them sensitive to formal variation both within and across languages, and limits their value to semantic applications. We present UCCA, a novel multi-layered framework for semantic representation that aims to accommodate the semantic distinctions expressed through linguistic utterances. We demonstrate UCCA's portability across domains and languages, and its relative insensitivity to meaning-preserving syntactic variation. We also show that UCCA can be effectively and quickly learned by annotators with no linguistic background, and describe the compilation of a UCCA-annotated corpus.
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AN - SCOPUS:84907300723
SN - 9781937284503
T3 - ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 228
EP - 238
BT - Long Papers
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013
Y2 - 4 August 2013 through 9 August 2013
ER -