Janaki Sheth, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward
| Challenge: | Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a sentence-level graph that is biased towards English. |
| Approach: | They propose a technique for foreign-text-to-English AMR alignment using contextual word alignment between English and foreign language tokens. |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique outperforms the best results for German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. |
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