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).
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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.
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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.
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10:20–10:40am
Coffee Break
Items such as bus tickets will be distributed during this coffee break.
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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.
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12:00–1:30pm
Lunch break
Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.
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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.
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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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TUTORIAL WORKSHOP EVENTS-
9:00–10:20am
Word/Concept mismatches - MWEs, intro to polysynthesis; Discourse relations in UMR
Presented by Julia Bonn.
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10:20–10:40am
Coffee Break
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10:40–12:00pm
Coreference, temporal and modal dependencies
Presented by Julia Bonn.
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12:00–1:30pm
Lunch break
Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.
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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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TUTORIAL WORKSHOP-
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.
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10:20–10:40am
Coffee Break
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10:40–12:00pm
Continuing on Arapaho data and annotation, annotating gestural AMR for Arapaho
Presented by Andy Cowell.
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12:00–1:30pm
Lunch break
Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.
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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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TUTORIAL WORKSHOP-
9:00–10:20am
Extension of UMR to gesture, multi-modal UMR for Arapaho, Czech UMR
Presented by Andy Cowell and Jan Hajič.
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10:20–10:40am
Coffee Break
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10:40–12:00pm
Annotating Other Languages
Hands on workshop with Julia Bonn and Benet Post.
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12:00–1:30pm
Lunch break
Lunch will be provided at the Center for Community (C4C) on campus for participants and organizers.
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1:30–4:30pm
UMRs in more languages and with multimodality
A workshop with James Pustejovsky's students.
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TUTORIAL WORKSHOP-
9:15–10:15am
LLM Prompting Methods for Discourse-Level Graph Representations
Jeffrey Flanigan invited talk
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10:15–10:45am
Coffee Break
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10:45–11:10pm
Linearization Order Matters for AMR-to-Text Generation Input
Talk - Justin DeBenedetto
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11:10–11:35pm
Persian Abstract Meaning Representation - Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standard
Talk - Reza Takhshid, Tara Azin, Razieh Shojaei and Mohammad Bahrani
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11:35–12:00pm
Baseline Uniform Meaning Representation Parsing as a Pipelined Approach
Talk - Jayeol Chun and Nianwen Xue
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12:00–1:30pm
Catered lunch
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1:30–2:30pm
Pipeline vs. End-to-end parsing approaches
Panel and discussion
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2:30–3:00pm
Concluding remarks and future plans
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6:00–8:00pm
Group Dinner
An evening dinner at the Taj Restaurant in Boulder.