The 7th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
Monday, May 11, 2026 · Room #12
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Remarks
9:10 – 10:25 Oral Session 1 (3 papers × 25 min)
Session Chair: Jim Martin
| Time | Paper |
|---|---|
| 9:10 – 9:35 | CxGr-AMR: Extending Abstract Meaning Representation Beyond Lexically Anchored Relations with Constructional Rolesets Claire Bonial, Claire Benet Post, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls and Harish Tayyar Madabushi |
| 9:35 – 10:00 | Adding Aspectual Information to Structured Meaning Representations Claire Benet Post, Paul Bontempo, August Ulfelder Milliken, Alvin Po-Chun Chen, Nicholas Derby, Saksham Khatwani, Sumeyye Nabieva, Karthik Sairam and Alexis Palmer |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Modelling Idiomatic Expressions in Abstract Meaning Representation Venera Gareeva and Johannes Heinecke |
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session Chair: Claire Benet Post
| # | Poster |
|---|---|
| 1 | TrAinMR: an Annotator Training Website for Abstract Meaning Representation Mina Yang and Shira Wein |
| 2 | Named Entity Recognition for Persian Literary Text: A Case Study on The Little Prince Minoo Nassajian, Joakim Nivre and Daniel Zeman |
| 3 | Towards Consistent UMR Annotation of Deverbal Nouns: Evidence from Czech and Latin Hana Hledíková, Federica Gamba, Marketa Lopatkova and Jan Štěpánek |
| 4 | SAVI: Web-based Multilayered Semantic Annotation Validation Interface Sashank Tatavolu, Soma Soma, Pratibha Rani and Sukhada Sukhada |
| 5 | Extracting First Order Logic Formulas from Graphical Semantic Representations Rémi de Vergnette, Vincent Tourneur and Maxime Amblard |
| 6 | Finding Meaning in Embeddings: Concept Separation Curves Paul Keuren, Marc Ponsen and Robert Ayoub Bagheri |
| 7 | Meaning Representations as Variational Quantum Circuits Tilen Gaetano Limbäck-Stokin, Tanishka A. Birdavade, Kin Ian Lo and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh |
| 8 | Superframes: A Schema for Lexicon-free Frame-semantic Annotation Kilian Evang |
11:30 – 12:45 Shared Task Session: UMR Parsing
Session Chairs: Dan Zeman and Claire Benet Post
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 11:30 – 11:55 | First Shared Task on UMR Parsing (Overview) Jan Štěpánek, Daniel Zeman, Marketa Lopatkova, Federica Gamba, Hana Hledíková and Nianwen Xue |
| 11:55 – 12:15 | Orange @ UMR Parsing Shared Task (System) Johannes Heinecke and Munshi Asadullah |
| 12:15 – 12:35 | Sema System for the DMR 2026 Shared Task: Multistage UMR Parsing with Qwen3-4B (System) Rémi de Vergnette and Maxime Amblard |
| 12:35 – 12:45 | Q&A / Discussion |
12:45 – 13:00 Buffer
14:00 – 15:30 Panel: “The Role of Symbolic Representations in the Era of LLMs”
Session Chair: James Pustejovsky
| Moderator | James Pustejovsky |
| Panelists | Louise McNally, German Rigau, Jan Hajič, Susan Windisch Brown, Claire Bonial |
15:30 – 15:55 Oral Session 2
Session Chair: Dan Zeman
| Time | Paper |
|---|---|
| 15:30 – 15:55 | Meaning Annotation Experience. A Tribute to Petr Sgall Marie Mikulová, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Jarmila Panevova and Eva Hajicova |
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:20 Oral Session 3 (2 papers × 25 min)
Session Chair: Claire Benet Post
| Time | Paper |
|---|---|
| 16:30 – 16:55 | Extending Uniform Meaning Representation to Persian: The First Corpus Resource Minoo Nassajian and Daniel Zeman |
| 16:55 – 17:20 | Regression-Tested Compositional Semantics: A Graphical Development Environment for Glue and Description-by-Analysis Mark-Matthias Zymla and Kascha Kruschwitz |
17:20 – 17:45 Open Discussion
Session Chair: Claire Benet Post
17:45 – 18:00 Closing Remarks