Program

Below you can find information about the tutorials and workshops, as well as other events, happening during the 2024 UMR Summer School.

Please note, Monday through Thursday sessions will be in Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (LBB). Friday’s talks will be held at the University Memorial Center (UMC).


  • 8:00–9:00am
    Arrival at CU Boulder, Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (LBB) Building

    Kris Stenzel will be at the hotel directing students to shuttles taking them to campus at this time.

  • 9:00–10:20am
    Intro to UMR and PENMAN

    Julia Bonn will introduce PENMAN graph structures and provide information about UMR and its distinction from AMR.

  • 10:20–10:40am
    Coffee Break

    Items such as bus tickets will be distributed during this coffee break.

  • 10:40–12:00pm
    UMRs application other languages

    Jin Zhao and Ahmed Elsayed will walk through UMRs applications to other languages, specifically Chinese and Arabic.

  • 12:00–1:30pm
    Lunch break

    Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.

  • 1:30–4:30pm
    UMR-Writer Tutorial

    Jin Zhao and Benet Post will give a hands-on workshop on how to use the UMR Writer - http://umr-tool.cs.brandeis.edu.

  • 6:00–8:00pm
    Welcome BBQ

    An evening welcome BBQ at the Homewood Suites. Address - 4950 Baseline Rd, Boulder, CO 80303.

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  • 9:00–10:20am
    Word/Concept mismatches - MWEs, intro to polysynthesis; Discourse relations in UMR

    Presented by Julia Bonn.

  • 10:20–10:40am
    Coffee Break

  • 10:40–12:00pm
    Coreference, temporal and modal dependencies

    Presented by Julia Bonn.

  • 12:00–1:30pm
    Lunch break

    Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.

  • 1:30–4:30pm
    MWEs, Discourse Relations, and Document-Level Annotation

    Benet Post and Martha Palmer will give a hands-on workshop on how UMR encodes different types of multi-word expressions (MWEs), about discourse and temporal relations, and explain document-level annotations.

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  • 9:00–10:20am
    Intro to Arapaho data and annotation and IGT to UMR.

    Intro to Arapahoe with Andy Cowell and IGT to UMR presentation with Alexis Palmer.

  • 10:20–10:40am
    Coffee Break

  • 10:40–12:00pm
    Continuing on Arapaho data and annotation, annotating gestural AMR for Arapaho

    Presented by Andy Cowell.

  • 12:00–1:30pm
    Lunch break

    Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.

  • 1:30–4:30pm
    Formal semantic interpretation of UMR, Extension of UMR to gesture, multi-modal UMR for English, and applications to Arapaho

    James Pustejovsky and Andy Cowell will give a hands-on workshop.

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  • 9:00–10:20am
    Extension of UMR to gesture, multi-modal UMR for Arapaho, Czech UMR

    Presented by Andy Cowell and Jan Hajič.

  • 10:20–10:40am
    Coffee Break

  • 10:40–12:00pm
    Annotating Other Languages

    Hands on workshop with Julia Bonn and Benet Post.

  • 12:00–1:30pm
    Lunch break

    Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.

  • 1:30–4:30pm
    UMRs in more languages and with multimodality

    A workshop with James Pustejovsky's students.

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  • 9:15–10:15am
    LLM Prompting Methods for Discourse-Level Graph Representations

    Jeffrey Flanigan invited talk

  • 10:15–10:45am
    Coffee Break

  • 10:45–11:10pm
    Linearization Order Matters for AMR-to-Text Generation Input

    Talk - Justin DeBenedetto

  • 11:10–11:35pm
    Persian Abstract Meaning Representation - Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standard

    Talk - Reza Takhshid, Tara Azin, Razieh Shojaei and Mohammad Bahrani

  • 11:35–12:00pm
    Baseline Uniform Meaning Representation Parsing as a Pipelined Approach

    Talk - Jayeol Chun and Nianwen Xue

  • 12:00–1:30pm
    Catered lunch

  • 1:30–2:30pm
    Pipeline vs. End-to-end parsing approaches

    Panel and discussion

  • 2:30–3:00pm
    Concluding remarks and future plans

  • 6:00–8:00pm
    Group Dinner

    An evening dinner at the Taj Restaurant in Boulder.

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