What kinds of reasoning can AMR represent?

[Qiming Bao]

Hi,

I got one question for AMR. I want to know what kinds of reasoning AMR can represent? Cause I know AMR can represent modal logic (https://amr.isi.edu/doc/amr-dict.html#modal%20adverbs%20and%20adjectives) that can has a different argument from must (https://amr.isi.edu/doc/amr-dict.html#modal%20verbs). It seems like AMR can represent temporal reasoning that before has a totally different argument from after (https://amr.isi.edu/doc/amr-dict.html#comparative). But I found AMR cannot distinguish tense well. That means AMR is not sensitive to tense in my test examples. If AMR cannot handle tense well, it will be hard to handle temporal reasoning. Also, is there any other reasoning that AMR considers? Many thanks!

Kind regards,
Qiming

[Nathan Schneider]

Please see https://nert-nlp.github.io/AMR-Bibliography/ for publications about AMR. Some of them describe its potential/limitations with regard to logical inference. See Ji et al. LAW 2022, for example.

[Qiming Bao]

Thanks a lot for that!