Papers › AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference

AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference

12 Apr 2020ACL 2020 6arXiv:2004.05572archive 2025-07-28

Deng Cai, Wai Lam

We propose a new end-to-end model that treats AMR parsing as a series of dual decisions on the input sequence and the incrementally constructed graph. At each time step, our model performs multiple rounds of attention, reasoning, and composition that aim to answer two critical questions: (1) which part of the input \textit{sequence} to abstract; and (2) where in the output \textit{graph} to construct the new concept. We show that the answers to these two questions are mutually causalities. We design a model based on iterative inference that helps achieve better answers in both perspectives, leading to greatly improved parsing accuracy. Our experimental results significantly outperform all previously reported \textsc{Smatch} scores by large margins. Remarkably, without the help of any large-scale pre-trained language model (e.g., BERT), our model already surpasses previous state-of-the-art using BERT. With the help of BERT, we can push the state-of-the-art results to 80.2\% on LDC2017T10 (AMR 2.0) and 75.4\% on LDC2014T12 (AMR 1.0).

PaperPDFConference PDFCodeCode Syntology ran

In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

For agents, Syntology's MCP tool lists every function and class Syntology harvested from this paper and whether it ran (how to connect): get_harvested_code_for_paper(arxiv_id="2004.05572")

Code

Syntology Ran 17 of 31 code samples harvested from 2 repositories linked to this paper; 14 have no recorded run. Of those that ran: 1 ran · honoured contract; 1 ran · violated contract; 5 ran · our draft was wrong; 10 ran with no contract checked.

By repository: official repository: 6 samples from 1 repository, 0 ran; community (archive-listed): 24 samples from 1 repository, 16 ran; 1 identical to code first harvested elsewhere. The run record, sample by sample. “Ran” means executed on a synthesized input, not that the code is correct or reproduces the paper.

jcyk/AMR-gs officialmentioned in papermentioned on GitHubpytorchMIT report
bjascob/amrlib mentioned on GitHub report
ibm/graph_ensemble_learning mentioned on GitHubpytorch report

Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

31 samples harvested; 17 ran; 1 honoured the contract we drafted; 14 have no recorded run. Read from Syntology's graph 2026-09-24; that is when this build read the record, not when the samples ran.

1ran · honoured contract
1ran · violated contract
5ran · our draft was wrong
10ran
14unverified

Licence: 1 of the 31 samples is pointer only, meaning Syntology does not serve that copy's text. This page shows no code text for any sample; each one links to its file in the repository.

Harvested from 2 repositories linked to this paper, official or community; each sample names its own and says which. Some samples are identical code Syntology first harvested from another repository; for those, this paper's copy is not located and its licence is not recorded. “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized input. It does not mean the output is correct, and nothing here reproduces the paper's results. “Honoured” and “violated” refer to a contract Syntology drafted from the code itself; “our draft was wrong” and “fixture could not drive it” are failures of Syntology's instrument, not of the code.

Each sample ends with its code_sha256, Syntology's identity for that exact code. An agent fetches the stored sample with Syntology's MCP tool get_code(code_sha256="…") (how to connect); click an identity to copy that call.

Repository labels, per sample. official repository: The archive marks this repository official for the paper. named in the paper: The archive records that the paper mentions this repository; it is not marked official. community (archive-listed): In the archive's code links for this paper, not marked official and not recorded as mentioned in the paper. found in paper text by Syntology: Syntology found this repository in the paper's own text; whether it is the authors' implementation is not asserted. community: Not in the archive's code links for this paper; a community repository Syntology harvested. Samples from a repository marked official are listed first. Licence labels name the repository's licence as recorded at harvest. “Pointer only” means Syntology does not serve that copy's text, for one of four reasons: no licence file was found; the licence was not identified; the licence is recorded as permissive but that copy's record is not marked cleared; or the licence is outside the permissive list Syntology serves text under (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD and similar). Some licences outside that list permit redistribution, such as WTFPL, and GPL-3.0 under its conditions; they are simply not on the list. Hover a licence label for the reason. File links open the file on GitHub at the default branch, which may have changed since the harvest.

ArraysToTensor jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/data.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 664642471ed447d0 · report
ListsToTensor jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/data.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 12eb240a8ae9ed12 · report
ListsofStringToTensor jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/data.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · b34a3f249614ba45 · report
is_attr_or_abs_form jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/AMRGraph.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 5846e0e199be3a49 · report
make_vocab jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/extract.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 5d147ec91127fd39 · report
need_an_instance jcyk/AMR-gs/parser/AMRGraph.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 53445cbd60ba3b37 · report
AMREmbedding bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · our draft was wrong MIT (permissive) · 9c17ed9b8e45ed75 · report
Beam bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 9422195a9817c9f0 · report
CNNEncoder bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 2aca3b9ec1e90acc · report
ConceptEncoder bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 9685d1d7338d51b0 · report
Highway bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 9a03fd1280e48fe1 · report
Hypothesis bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 578aaecb450604aa · report
ListsToTensor bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · honoured contract MIT (permissive) · 61216bb6394461a5 · report
RelationGenerator bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · d575ce59062e5687 · report
SelfAttentionMask bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 2eacf55a75ce3b77 · report
SinusoidalPositionalEmbedding bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 940651e6bf8dc1b0 · report
TransformerLayer bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 8e5d31580fcebd5a · report
WordEncoder bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran MIT (permissive) · 490e608e2f392b83 · report
_is_attr_form bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · violated contract MIT (permissive) · 5fe4e042a974cf92 · report
compute_f_by_tensor bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · our draft was wrong fingerprinted MIT (permissive) · 4166e883cf4ae5a9 · report
label_smoothed_nll_loss bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · our draft was wrong MIT (permissive) · 2746494f3bbf25b3 · report
move_to_device bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) ran · our draft was wrong MIT (permissive) · 9d1d752263773f70 · report
ArcGenerator bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · ff00df88d53cbc0d · report
ConceptGenerator bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · 08e5532ebc24827d · report
DecodeLayer bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · 408d38484408687b · report
ListsofStringToTensor bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · ab457d4ca63f1a01 · report
MultiheadAttention bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · 4b0bd99292baeaff · report
Parser bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · e56d2ab78d40acb7 · report
Transformer bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · f0af88a62479f8da · report
search_by_batch bjascob/amrlib/amrlib/models/parse_gsii/modules/parser.py community (archive-listed) unverified MIT (permissive) · 009b8f7e0b6e1c7a · report
Embedding identical code first harvested elsewhere ran · our draft was wrong licence of this copy not recorded · 1485dd769dd9cb51 · report

Tasks

AMR ParsingLanguage ModelingLanguage Modelling

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
AMR Parsing LDC2014T12 AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference F1 Full 75.4 #3 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
AMR Parsing LDC2017T10 Cai and Lam Smatch 80.2 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.

Methods

AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBERTDense ConnectionsDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Linear DecayMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight DecayWordPiece

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections