UofR at SemEval-2016 Task 8: Learning Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Grammar for AMR Parsing

In this paper, we apply a synchronous-graphgrammar-based approach to SemEval-2016 Task 8, Meaning Representation Parsing. In particular, we learn Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Grammar (SHRG) rules from aligned pairs of sentences and AMR graphs. Then we use Earley algorithm with cubepruning for AMR parsing given new sentences and the learned SHRG. Experiments on the evaluation dataset demonstrate that competitive results can be achieved using a SHRGbased approach.