# The Parallel Meaning Bank: A Framework for Semantically Annotating Multiple Languages

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14854 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.14854/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Pre-Trained Language-Meaning Models for Multilingual Parsing and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.00124/) (2023)
- [PMB5: Gaining More Insight into Neural Semantic Parsing with Challenging Benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08354/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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.