Computational Construction Grammar: A Usage-Based Approach

di Jonathan Dunn (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2024

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.

• Autore: Jonathan Dunn
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 110 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 159 mm
• Peso: 310 gr.
• EAN: 9781009507608

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