Persian Abstract Meaning Representation

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is an annotation framework representing the semantic structure of a sentence as a whole. From the beginning, AMR was not intended to act as an interlingua; however, it has made progress towards the idea of designing a universal meaning representation framework. Accordingly, developing AMR annotation guidelines for different languages, based on language divergences, is of significant importance. In this paper, we elaborate on Persian Abstract Meaning Representation (PAMR) annotation specifications, based on which we annotated the Persian translation of "The Little Prince" as the first gold standard for Persian AMR. Moreover, we describe how some Persian-specific syntactic constructions would result in different AMR annotations.

A rule based algorithm for detecting negative words in Persian

In this paper, we present a novel method for detecting negative words in Persian. We first used an algorithm to an exceptions list which was later modified by hand. We then used the mentioned lists and a Persian polarity corpus in our rule based algorithm to detect negative words.