Explore abstract meaning representation (AMR) in natural language processing through this 44-minute conference talk from ODSC Europe 2019. Delve into the history of text meaning representation and learn about AMR graphs, their construction algorithms, and potential applications in question answering systems, text summarization, and simplification. Examine various approaches to representing text meaning, including bag of words, syntactic parsing, and semantic parsing. Understand AMR notation, examples of frames and modality, and parsing techniques such as graph-based and transition-based methods. Discover how AMR is evaluated using smatch and its applications in natural language generation and abstractive text summarization. Gain insights into the pros and cons of AMR and its potential to advance NLP research and applications.