  This paper gives a general description of the ideas behind the Parallel
Meaning Bank, a framework with the aim to provide an easy way to annotate
compositional semantics for texts written in languages other than English. The
annotation procedure is semi-automatic, and comprises seven layers of
linguistic information: segmentation, symbolisation, semantic tagging, word
sense disambiguation, syntactic structure, thematic role labelling, and
co-reference. New languages can be added to the meaning bank as long as the
documents are based on translations from English, but also introduce new
interesting challenges on the linguistics assumptions underlying the Parallel
Meaning Bank.
