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How AMR distinguish passive and active sentence? #253

Closed 14H034160212 closed 2 years ago

14H034160212 commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I got one question for AMR. How can I modify an AMR graph from passive to active sentence and from active to the passive sentence? Or does AMR capture the semantic representation, and it will randomly generate a passive or active sentence?

Kind regards, Qiming

nschneid commented 2 years ago

AMR tries to abstract away from syntax, and so it uses semantic roles rather than syntactic relations like subject and object. Thus a passive sentence like "The window was broken by a rock" would have the same AMR as the active counterpart "A rock broke the window".

14H034160212 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for that. It makes more sense to me.