NATIONALITY named entities

[uhermjakob]

In my work to add general named-entity pre-processing to the AMR Editor, I noticed that "nationality"-type named entities are being annotated somewhat inconsistently with respect to the role connecting the GPE to "person":

Example: "This indicates the number of North Koreans working in Iran on such projects."

• (p / person :mod <North Korea>)
• (p / person :source <North Korea>)
• (p / person :poss <North Korea>)
• (p / person :location <North Korea>)

:mod appears to be the mildly dominant annotator choice:

  (p / person
     :mod (c / country :name (n / name :op1 "North" :op2 "Korea")))

and it probably has the most relevant precedents, so I'm leaning towards :mod for "nationality":

British conglomerate

  (c / conglomerate
     :mod (c2 / country :name (n / name :op1 "Britain"))) 

Canadian dollar

  (d / dollar
     :mod (c / country :name (n / name :op1 "Canada"))

Such nationality NEs are not limited to nationality in the legal sense, but would probably extend to non-country GPEs as well:

• Californians
• Londoners
• Asians

[kevincrawfordknight]

i like ":mod" for this. of course, AMR 1.5 will hunt down and kill such ":mod" with a vengeance.

[uhermjakob]

Consensus: use :mod for the time being.