Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03018v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 16:08:27 GMT
• Title: Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation
• Authors: Shira Wein, Zhuxin Wang, Nathan Schneider
• Abstract summary: Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-level approach to "equivalence" We introduce a novel, more sensitive method of characterizing semantic equivalence that leverages Abstract Meaning Representation graph structures.
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• Abstract: Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many cross-lingual and mono-lingual NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-level approach to "equivalence," despite previous evidence that fine-grained differences and implicit content have an effect on human understanding (Roth and Anthonio, 2021) and system performance (Briakou and Carpuat, 2021). In this work, we introduce a novel, more sensitive method of characterizing semantic equivalence that leverages Abstract Meaning Representation graph structures. We develop an approach, which can be used with either gold or automatic AMR annotations, and demonstrate that our solution is in fact finer-grained than existing corpus filtering methods and more accurate at predicting strictly equivalent sentences than existing semantic similarity metrics. We suggest that our finer-grained measure of semantic equivalence could limit the workload in the task of human post-edited machine translation and in human evaluation of sentence similarity.

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