Few resources represent implicit roles for natural language understanding , and existing studies in NLP only make coarse distinctions between categories of arguments omitted from linguistic form. In this paper , we design a typology for fine-grained implicit argument annotation on top of Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation's foundational layer (Abend and Rappoport, 2013). Our design aligns with O'Gorman (2019)'s implicit role interpretation in a linguistic and computational model. The proposed implicit argument categorisation set consists of six types: Deictic, Generic, Genre-based, Type-identifiable, Non-specific, and Iterated-set. We corroborate the theory by reviewing and refining part of the UCCA EWT corpus and providing a new dataset alongside comparative analysis with other schemes . It is anticipated that our study will inspire tailored design of implicit role annotation in other meaning representation frameworks, and stimulate research in relevant fields, such as coreference resolution and question answering .
Predicate-argument structure analysis is a central component in meaning representations of text. The fact that some arguments are not explicitly mentioned in a sentence gives rise to ambiguity in language understanding, and renders it difficult for machines to interpret text correctly. However, only few resources represent implicit roles for NLU , and existing studies in NLP only make coarse distinctions between categories of arguments omitted from linguistic form. This paper proposes a typology for fine-grained implicit argument annotation on top of Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation's foundational layer . The proposed implicit argument categorisation is driven by theories of implicit role interpretation and consists of six types: Deictic, Generic, Genre-based, Type-identifiable, Non-specific, and Iterated-set. We exemplify our design by revisiting part of the UCCA EWT corpus , providing a new dataset annotated with the refinement layer, and making a comparative analysis with other schemes .
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