Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar

Jonathan Dunn


Abstract
A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions. But what is the best model of constraint generalization? This paper evaluates competing frequency-based and association-based models across eight languages using a metric derived from the Minimum Description Length paradigm. The experiments show that association-based models produce better generalizations across all languages by a significant margin.
Anthology ID:
W19-2913
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Emmanuele Chersoni, Cassandra Jacobs, Alessandro Lenci, Tal Linzen, Laurent Prévot, Enrico Santus
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CMCL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
117–128
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-2913
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-2913
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Jonathan Dunn. 2019. Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 117–128, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar (Dunn, CMCL 2019)
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