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The FCG Editor: An innovative environment for engineering computational construction grammars.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Since its inception in the mid-eighties, the field of construction grammar has been steadily growing and constructionist approaches to language have by now become a mainstream paradigm for linguistic research. While the construction grammar community has
Remi van Trijp +2 more
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Computational construction grammar for visual question answering [PDF]
Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2019 Abstract In order to be able to answer a natural language question, a computational system needs three main capabilities. First, the system needs to be able to analyze the question into a structured query, revealing its component parts and how these are combined.
Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls
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A computational construction grammar approach to semantic frame extraction
Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2021 Abstract This paper introduces a novel methodology for extracting semantic frames from text corpora. Building on recent advances in computational construction grammar, the method captures expert knowledge of how semantic frames can be expressed in the form of conventionalised form-meaning pairings, called constructions.
Katrien Beuls, Paul Van Eecke
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Exploring the Creative Potential of Computational Construction Grammar [PDF]
Zeitschrift Fur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 2018 Abstract Computational construction grammar aims to provide concrete processing models that operationalise construction grammar accounts of the different aspects of language. This paper discusses the computational mechanisms that allow construction grammar models to exhibit, to a certain extent, the creativity and inventiveness that is ...
Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Construction Grammar (CxG) is a paradigm from cognitive linguistics emphasizing the connection between syntax and semantics. Rather than rules that operate on lexical items, it posits constructions as the central building blocks of language, i.e ...
Leonie Weissweiler +7 more
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Formal Basis of a Language Universal
Computational Linguistics, 2021 Steedman (2020) proposes as a formal universal of natural language grammar that grammatical permutations of the kind that have given rise to transformational rules are limited to a class known to mathematicians and computer scientists as the “separable ...
Miloš Stanojević, Mark Steedman
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You are driving me up the wall! A corpus-based study of a special class of resultative constructions
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 This paper focuses on resultative constructions from a computational and corpus-based approach. We claim that the array of expressions (traditionally classed as idioms, collocations, free word combinations, etc.) that are used to convey a person’s change
Gloria Corpas Pastor
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Aligning speech and co-speech gesture in a constraint-based grammar
Journal of Language Modelling, 2018 This paper concerns the form-meaning mapping of communicative actions consisting of speech and improvised co-speech gestures. Based on the findings of previous cognitive and computational approaches, we advance a new theory in which this form-meaning
Katya Alahverdzhieva +2 more
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Discours, 2020 How do second language learners acquire form-meaning associations in the second language that are inconsistent with their first language? In this study, we focus on subject pronouns in Italian and Dutch.
Petra Hendriks, Margreet Vogelzang
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Discriminant features and temporal structure of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 To fully define the grammar of American Sign Language (ASL), a linguistic model of its nonmanuals needs to be constructed. While significant progress has been made to understand the features defining ASL manuals, after years of research, much still needs
C Fabian Benitez-Quiroz +3 more
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