Construction mining
Identifying construction candidates for the German constructicon
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.
Article outline
- 1.What’s out there in the constructicon?
- 2.Identifying constructions
- 3.Construction mining: Operationalization and implementation of a computational framework
- 3.1Generating a list of patterns
- 3.2From patterns to construction candidates
- 3.3cxnMiner: A framework for mining constructions
- 3.4Future work: From construction candidates to a constructicon
- 4.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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