Linguistics vs. language technology in constructicon building and use

Borin, Lars; Dannélls, Dana; Grūzītis, Normunds

doi:10.1075/cal.22.08bor

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“…A study of a standard construction grammar in GF was carried out in Gruzitis et al (2015) and Borin, Dannélls, and Grūzītis (2018). It addressed the Swedish Constructicon (SweCcn) (Bäckström, Lyngfelt, and Sköldberg 2014), converting the semi-formal descriptions to GF grammar rules in a semi-automatic way.…”

Section: Construction Grammarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abstract Syntax as Interlingua: Scaling Up the Grammatical Framework from Controlled Languages to Robust Pipelines

Ranta

Angelov

Grūzītis

et al. 2020

Computational Linguistics

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Abstract syntax is an interlingual representation used in compilers. Grammatical Framework (GF) applies the abstract syntax idea to natural languages. The development of GF started in 1998, first as a tool for controlled language implementations, where it has gained an established position in both academic and commercial projects. GF provides grammar resources for over 40 languages, enabling accurate generation and translation, as well as grammar engineering tools and components for mobile and Web applications. On the research side, the focus in the last ten years has been on scaling up GF to wide-coverage language processing. The concept of abstract syntax offers a unified view on many other approaches: Universal Dependencies, WordNets, FrameNets, Construction Grammars, and Abstract Meaning Representations. This makes it possible for GF to utilize data from the other approaches and to build robust pipelines. In return, GF can contribute to data-driven approaches by methods to transfer resources from one language to others, to augment data by rule-based generation, to check the consistency of hand-annotated corpora, and to pipe analyses into high-precision semantic back ends. This article gives an overview of the use of abstract syntax as interlingua through both established and emerging NLP applications involving GF.

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Section: Construction Grammarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abstract Syntax as Interlingua: Scaling Up the Grammatical Framework from Controlled Languages to Robust Pipelines

Ranta

Angelov

Grūzītis

et al. 2020

Computational Linguistics

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Construction mining

Barteld

Ziem

2020

BJL

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The German Constructicon Project (www.german-constructicon.de) aims at documenting grammatical constructions in contemporary standard German on the basis of annotated corpus examples, including relations between constructions and between constructions and evoked semantic frames. So far, the research focus has been mainly on the development and computational implementation of a constructicographic workflow (including a parsing pipeline) that allows for addressing any kind of constructions on varying levels of schematicity, idiomaticity, and abstractness. However, such an exemplar-driven procedure precludes us from systematically identifying constructional candidates. In this article, we scrutinize ways to operationalize and implement data-mining procedures to inductively identify construction candidates.

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