Computational Construction Grammar by Jonathan Dunn

Computational Construction Grammar by Jonathan Dunn

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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ISBN 13	9781009507608
ISBN 10	1009507605
Title	Computational Construction Grammar
Author	Jonathan Dunn
Series	Elements In Cognitive Linguistics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2024-06-06
Number of pages	110
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