Approaching the Source of Symbol Grounding with Confluent Reductions of Abstract Meaning Representation Directed Graphs

Abstract: Abstract meaning representation (AMR) is a semantic formalism used to represent the meaning of sentences as directed acyclic graphs. In this paper, we describe how real digital dictionaries can be embedded into AMR directed graphs (digraphs), using state-of-the-art pre-trained LLMs. Then, we reduce those graphs in a confluent manner, i.e. with transformations that preserve their circuit space. Finally, the properties of these reduces digraphs are analyzed and discussed in relation to the symbol grounding problem.