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Series:   Elements in Cognitive Linguistics

Computational Construction Grammar

A Usage-Based Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2024

Jonathan Dunn
Jonathan Dunn
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Summary

This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. This work explores how to represent constructions, how to learn constructions from a corpus, and how to arrange the constructions in a grammar as a network. From a theoretical perspective, this Element examines how construction grammars emerge from usage alone as complex systems, with slot-constraints learned at the same time that constructions are learned. From a practical perspective, this work is accompanied by a Python package which enables linguists to incorporate construction grammars into their own corpus-based work. The computational experiments in this Element are important for testing the learnability, variability, and confirmability of Construction Grammar as a theory of language. All code examples will leverage the cloud computing platform Code Ocean to guide readers through implementation of these algorithms.
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Computational syntaxusage-based grammarConstruction Grammarcognitive grammarcognitive linguistics
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Series: Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
Online ISBN: 9781009233743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 06 June 2024

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