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Refining Implicit Argument Annotation for UCCA
Predicate-argument structure analysis is a central component in meaning
representations of text. The fact that some arguments are not explicitly
mentioned in a sentence gives rise to ambiguity in language understanding, and
renders it difficult for machines to interpret text correctly. However, only
few resources represent implicit roles for NLU, and existing studies in NLP
only make coarse distinctions between categories of arguments omitted from
linguistic form. This paper proposes a typology for fine-grained implicit
argument annotation on top of Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation's
foundational layer. The proposed implicit argument categorisation is driven by
theories of implicit role interpretation and consists of six types: Deictic,
Generic, Genre-based, Type-identifiable, Non-specific, and Iterated-set. We
exemplify our design by revisiting part of the UCCA EWT corpus, providing a new
dataset annotated with the refinement layer, and making a comparative analysis
with other schemes.Comment: DMR 202