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amr-unknown conflates "who" and "what" #238

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nschneid opened this issue Dec 27, 2018 · 0 comments
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amr-unknown conflates "who" and "what" #238

nschneid opened this issue Dec 27, 2018 · 0 comments

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nschneid commented Dec 27, 2018

Often we can guess from context whether amr-unknown refers to a person or not, as in these Dictionary examples:

  • What did the girl find? (find-01 :ARG0 girl :ARG1 amr-unknown)
  • Whose car is this? (car :poss amr-unknown :domain this)

But sometimes it is ambiguous: the first AMR would also apply to "Who did the girl find?" Likewise, currently "Who did you see?" and "What did you see?" both collapse to (see-01 :ARG0 you :ARG1 amr-unknown). AFAICT this is an exception in AMR: normally we do not remove animacy distinctions that are present in the language; "he" and "she" are retained rather than collapsed with "it", for example.

Would it be worth marking the distinction, e.g. mapping "who" to amr-unknown-person or amr-unknown :mod person ('which person')?

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