Computational Construction Grammar - A Usage-Based Approach

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.

List of contents

1. Representing constructions; 2. Learning constructions; 3. Forming the constructicon; 4. Conclusions; References.

Summary

This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. The computational experiments are important for testing the learnability, variability, and confirmability of Construction Grammar as a theory of language.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Dunn, Dunn Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009507608
• ISBN: 978-1-00-950760-8
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 310 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics