Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue

Claire Bonial; Lucia Donatelli; Mitchell Abrams; Stephanie M. Lukin; Stephen Tratz; Matthew Marge; Ron Artstein; David Traum; Clare R. Voss

Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue

Claire Bonial
, Lucia Donatelli
, Mitchell Abrams
, Stephanie M. Lukin
, Stephen Tratz
, Matthew Marge
, Ron Artstein
, David Traum
, Clare R. Voss

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Abstract

This paper describes a schema that enriches Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) in order to provide a semantic representation for facilitating Natural Language Understanding (NLU) in dialogue systems. AMR offers a valuable level of abstraction of the propositional content of an utterance; however, it does not capture the illocutionary force or speaker's intended contribution in the broader dialogue context (e.g., make a request or ask a question), nor does it capture tense or aspect. We explore dialogue in the domain of human-robot interaction, where a conversational robot is engaged in search and navigation tasks with a human partner. To address the limitations of standard AMR, we develop an inventory of speech acts suitable for our domain, and present “Dialogue-AMR”, an enhanced AMR that represents not only the content of an utterance, but the illocutionary force behind it, as well as tense and aspect. To showcase the coverage of the schema, we use both manual and automatic methods to construct the “DialAMR” corpus-a corpus of human-robot dialogue annotated with standard AMR and our enriched Dialogue-AMR schema. Our automated methods can be used to incorporate AMR into a larger NLU pipeline supporting human-robot dialogue.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	684-695
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546344
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020 - Marseille, France Duration: 11 May 2020 → 16 May 2020

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Conference	12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	11/05/20 → 16/05/20

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Funding

We are grateful to anonymous reviewersfor their feedback. The third author was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the AdvancedResearch Technology, Inc. contract number W911QX-18-F-0096; the seventh and eighth authors were sponsored by ARL under contract number W911NF-14-D-0005.

Funders	Funder number
Advanced Research Technology, Inc.
AdvancedResearch Technology, Inc.	W911QX-18-F-0096, W911NF-14-D-0005
Association of Research Libraries
Army Research Laboratory

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Bonial, C., Donatelli, L., Abrams, M., Lukin, S. M., Tratz, S., Marge, M., Artstein, R., Traum, D., & Voss, C. R. (2020). Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 684-695). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.86/

Bonial, Claire ; Donatelli, Lucia ; Abrams, Mitchell et al. / Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue. Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Frederic Bechet ; Philippe Blache ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Asuncion Moreno ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. pp. 684-695

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Bonial, C, Donatelli, L, Abrams, M, Lukin, SM, Tratz, S, Marge, M, Artstein, R, Traum, D & Voss, CR 2020, Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, A Moreno, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 684-695, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020, Marseille, France, 11/05/20. <https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.86/>

Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue. / Bonial, Claire; Donatelli, Lucia; Abrams, Mitchell et al.
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Frederic Bechet; Philippe Blache; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Asuncion Moreno; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 684-695.

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Bonial C, Donatelli L, Abrams M, Lukin SM, Tratz S, Marge M et al. Dialogue-AMR: Abstract meaning representation for dialogue. In Calzolari N, Bechet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Moreno A, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2020. p. 684-695 Epub 2020 May.

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