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Constructions at work or at rest?
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Rens Bod
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February 10, 2009
Abstract
We question whether Adele Goldberg fulfills her self-declared goal in “Constructions at Work”, i.e. to develop a usage-based theory that “can produce an open-ended number of novel utterances based on a finite amount of input”. We point out converging trends in computational linguistics that suggest formalizations of Construction Grammar. In particular, we go into recent developments in Data-Oriented Parsing, such as U-DOP and LFG-DOP, that produce an unlimited number of new utterances based on a finite number of stored form-meaning pairs.
Keywords:: computational linguistics; data-oriented parsing; U-DOP, LFG-DOP; probabilistic linguistics; language acquisition; language processing
Received: 2007-10-23
Revised: 2008-03-22
Published Online: 2009-02-10
Published in Print: 2009-February
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Keywords for this article
computational linguistics;
data-oriented parsing;
U-DOP, LFG-DOP;
probabilistic linguistics;
language acquisition;
language processing
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