We present a semantic parser for Abstract Meaning Representations which learns to parse strings into tree representations of the compositional structure of an AMR graph. This allows us to use standard neural techniques for supertagging and dependency tree parsing, constrained by a linguistically principled type system. We present two approximative decoding algorithms, which achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and outperform strong baselines. Related WorkRecently, AMR parsing has generated considerable research activity, due to the availability of large-

Most semantic parsers that map sentences to graph-based meaning representations are handdesigned for specific graphbanks. We present a compositional neural semantic parser which achieves, for the first time, competitive accuracies across a diverse range of graphbanks. Incorporating BERT embeddings and multi-task learning improves the accuracy further, setting new states of the art on DM, PAS, PSD, AMR 2015 and EDS.

A key problem in semantic parsing with graph-based semantic representations is graph parsing, i.e. computing all possible analyses of a given graph according to a grammar. This problem arises in training synchronous string-to-graph grammars, and when generating strings from them. We present two algorithms for graph parsing (bottom-up and top-down) with s-graph grammars. On the related problem of graph parsing with hyperedge replacement grammars, our implementations outperform the best previous system by several orders of magnitude.

AM dependency parsing is a linguistically principled method for neural semantic parsing with high accuracy across multiple graphbanks. It relies on a type system that models semantic valency but makes existing parsers slow. We describe an A* parser and a transition-based parser for AM dependency parsing which guarantee well-typedness and improve parsing speed by up to 3 orders of magnitude, while maintaining or improving accuracy.

We describe the Saarland University submission to the shared task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing (MRP) at the 2019 Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).