Reforming AMR

Edward P. Stabler

Abstract: Many recent proposals aim to simplify semantic representations, and Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) comes from this tradition, but it is nevertheless quite expressive. Bos 2016 proposes a slightly reformed AMR for translation to first order logic. This paper proposes a different augmentation of AMR that is more easily provided, and a slightly different mapping to higher order and dynamic logic. The proposed augmentation can be, at least in most cases, easily computed from standard ‘unreformed’ AMR corpora. The mapping from this augmented AMR to logical representation is a finite state multi bottom up tree transduction.