Representing ISO-Annotated Dynamic Information in UMR

Kiyong Lee; Harry Bunt; James Pustejovsky; Alex C. Fang; Chongwon Park

Representing ISO-Annotated Dynamic Information in UMR

Kiyong Lee^*, Harry Bunt, James Pustejovsky, Alex C. Fang, Chongwon Park

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The ISO working group on semantic annotation aims to adopt the UMR formalism to represent dynamic information involving motions and their embedding grounds. The paper details how ISO’s XML-based temporal and spatial annotations, involving motions and spatio-temporally conditioned event-paths, will be converted to AMR or UMR forms. It also attempts to enrich the representation of dynamic information with the integrated spatio-temporal annotation scheme that accommodates firstorder dynamic logic, as briefly noted. The main motivation of such an effort is to make spatiotemporal annotations and related dynamic information easily understandable by artificial agents like robots to act. Our approach bridges ISO’s richly specified standards with the taskoriented expressiveness of UMR and dynamic logic. This integration paves the way for seamless downstream use of spatio-temporal annotations in dialogue systems, simulation environments, and embodied agents.
©2025 Association for Computational Linguistics

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
Editors	Kenneth Lai, Shira Wein
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	49-58
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	979-8-89176-296-1
Publication status	Published - Aug 2025
Event	The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 4 Aug 2025 → 4 Aug 2025 Conference number: 6 https://dmr2025.github.io

Conference

Conference	The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
Abbreviated title	DMR 2025
Place	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	4/08/25 → 4/08/25
Internet address	https://dmr2025.github.io

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dynamic information
dynamic space
embedding ground
motion
spatio-temporal annotation
UMR

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Lee, K, Bunt, H, Pustejovsky, J, Fang, AC & Park, C 2025, Representing ISO-Annotated Dynamic Information in UMR. in K Lai & S Wein (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 49-58, The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, Prague, Czech Republic, 4/08/25. <https://aclanthology.org/2025.dmr-1.6/>

Representing ISO-Annotated Dynamic Information in UMR. / Lee, Kiyong; Bunt, Harry; Pustejovsky, James et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations. ed. / Kenneth Lai; Shira Wein . Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. p. 49-58.

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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