Towards Universal Semantic Tagging
The paper proposes the task of universal semantic tagging tagging word tokens with language neutral, semantically informative tags. We argue that the task, with its independent nature, contributes to better semantic analysis for wide coverage multilingual text. We present the initial version of the semantic tagset and show that (a) the tags provide semantically fine grained information, and (b) they are suitable for cross lingual semantic parsing. An application of the semantic tagging in the Parallel Meaning Bank supports both of these points as the tags contribute to formal lexical semantics and their cross lingual projection. As a part of the application, we annotate a small corpus with the semantic tags and present new baseline result for universal semantic tagging.
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