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Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill this gap. It is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. The present book is the first extensive publication describing this framework. In addition to general introductions, it gives a number of concrete examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality. The book is suited both for linguists who want to know what Fluid Construction Grammar looks like and for computational linguists who may want to use this computational framework for their own experiments or applications.
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Luc
Steels
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Part I. Introduction
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Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar
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Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.
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A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar
A
first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar
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A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter introduces the main mechanisms available in FCG for representing constructions and transient structures. It sketches the process whereby constructions are applied to expand transient structures and illustrates how templates are used to define constructions in a more abstract and modular way. Lexical constructions are used as the main source of examples.
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Part II. Grammatical structures
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A design pattern for phrasal constructions
A
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Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse’’ or “this mouse of mine’’. Phrasal constructions not only build phrases but also combine the meanings contributed by their constituents and possibly add meaning of their own. Phrasal constructions are interesting because they involve hierarchy, compositionality, recursion, agreement and percolation. The paper also illustrates how FCG uses templates to organise the grammar design process and to simplify the definition of the constructions relevant for a particular language.
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A design pattern for argument structure constructions
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Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
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This paper presents a design pattern for handling argument structure and offers a concrete operationalization of this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar. Argument structure concerns the mapping between ‘participant structure’ (who did what to whom) and instances of ‘argument realization’ (the linguistic expression of participant structures). This mapping is multilayered and indirect, which poses great challenges for grammar design. In the proposed design pattern, lexico-phrasal constructions introduce their semantic and syntactic potential of linkage. Argument structure constructions, then, select from this potential the values that they require and implement the actual linking.
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Part III. Managing processing
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Search in linguistic processing
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A01
Joris Bleys
Bleys, Joris
Joris
Bleys
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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A01
Kevin Stadler
Stadler, Kevin
Kevin
Stadler
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
3
A01
Joachim De Beule
Beule, Joachim De
Joachim De
Beule
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Almost all words and syntactic patterns in human languages have multiple meanings and functions, requiring parsing and production to explore multiple hypotheses before a definite choice can be made. FCG supports standard heuristic search techniques to set up and manage search spaces and employs user-defined goal tests to verify whether acceptable end states have been reached. This chapter uses simple French phrasal constructions to illustrate both mechanisms. It first provides a worked out example without search and then looks at specific cases where search arises and how it is handled.
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Organizing constructions in networks
1
A01
Pieter Wellens
Wellens, Pieter
Pieter
Wellens
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Fluid Construction Grammar supports different ways to organize the inventory of constructions into networks. This is not just usable for descriptive purposes only. It plays an important role in streamlining the processes deciding which construction to consider first. Networks become increasingly more important as the complexity, multifunctionality, and size of a grammar grows. This chapter shows how networks of constructions are represented in FCG and how they are used to optimize language processing. Two examples are explored in more detail. The first example concerns family relations of specificity between constructions and the second one concerns conditional dependencies.
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Part IV. Case studies
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236
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Feature matrices and agreement
A case study for German case
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A01
Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This paper illustrates the use of ‘feature matrices’, a technique for handling ambiguity and feature indeterminacy in feature structure grammars using unification as the single mechanism for processing. Both phenomena involve forms that can be mapped onto multiple, often conflicting values. This paper illustrates their respective challenges through German case agreement, which has become the litmus test for demonstrating how well a grammar formalism deals with multifunctionality. After reviewing two traditional solutions, the paper demonstrates how complex grammatical categories can be represented as feature matrices instead of single-valued features. Feature matrices allow a free flow of constraints on possible feature-values coming from any part of an utterance, and they postpone commitment to any particular value until sufficient constraints have been identified. All examples in this paper are operationalized in Fluid Construction Grammar, but the design principle can be extended to other unification-grammars as well.
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264
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Construction sets and unmarked forms
A case study for Hungarian verbal agreement
1
A01
Katrien Beuls
Beuls, Katrien
Katrien
Beuls
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Construction application can be made more efficient by organizing constructions into sets and by imposing an ordering on when a construction set should be considered. This technique gives us moreover a way to handle unmarked cases, which are abundant in all the world’s languages. This paper presents a non-trivial case study to introduce and illustrate the utility of construction sets, namely Hungarian verbal agreement, which is part of the Hungarian system for expressing argument structure. Hungarian verbal agreement is interesting because it has a dual conjugation system with mono-personal and poly-personal agreement, i.e. agreement with subject only or with subject and object. The choice which system is chosen depends on complex syntactic and semantic considerations. Moreover the morphemes chosen to express agreement and case marking depend on many factors, including the phonological properties of the stem. This chapter therefore illustrates not only how construction sets are useful but also how construction grammar can take multiple linguistic levels into account.
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Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity
A case study for German spatial phrases
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Michael Spranger
Spranger, Michael
Michael
Spranger
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
2
A01
Martin Loetzsch
Loetzsch, Martin
Martin
Loetzsch
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter presents an operational grammar for German spatial language, in particular German locative phrases, as a case study for processing distributed information. It investigates the complex interplay of syntactic phenomena and spatial semantics, with a specific emphasis on efficient processing of syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity. Since FCG applies constructions in a sequence one after the other, the main challenge lies in mutual dependencies between constructions, that is, some constructions require pieces of information in order to make decisions that are only later on provided by other constructions. We present solutions and design patterns for dealing with these processing issues, which all have in common the strategy of postponing decisions as long as possible in processing until all the necessary information for making the decision is available.
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Part V. Fluidity and robustness
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330
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How to make construction grammars fluid and robust
1
A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
2
A01
Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
Natural languages are fluid. New conventions may arise and there is never absolute consensus in a population. How can human language users nevertheless have such a high rate of communicative success? And how do they deal with the incomplete sentences, false starts, errors and noise that is common in normal discourse? Fluidity, ungrammaticality and error are key problems for formal descriptions of language and for computational implementations of language processing because these seem to be necessarily rigid and mechanical. This chapter discusses how these issues are approached within the framework of Fluid Construction Grammar. Fluidity is not achieved by a single mechanism but through a combination of intelligent grammar design and flexible processing principles.
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xi
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CFX
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24
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Theoretical linguistics
06
01
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Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
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JB code
cal.11.02pa1
Section header
2
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Part I. Introduction
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JB code
cal.11.03ste
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30
28
Article
3
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Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar
1
A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.
10
01
JB code
cal.11.04ste
31
68
38
Article
4
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A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar
A
first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar
1
A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter introduces the main mechanisms available in FCG for representing constructions and transient structures. It sketches the process whereby constructions are applied to expand transient structures and illustrates how templates are used to define constructions in a more abstract and modular way. Lexical constructions are used as the main source of examples.
10
01
JB code
cal.11.05pa2
Section header
5
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Part II. Grammatical structures
10
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JB code
cal.11.06ste
71
114
44
Article
6
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A design pattern for phrasal constructions
A
design pattern for phrasal constructions
1
A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse’’ or “this mouse of mine’’. Phrasal constructions not only build phrases but also combine the meanings contributed by their constituents and possibly add meaning of their own. Phrasal constructions are interesting because they involve hierarchy, compositionality, recursion, agreement and percolation. The paper also illustrates how FCG uses templates to organise the grammar design process and to simplify the definition of the constructions relevant for a particular language.
10
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JB code
cal.11.07tri
115
146
32
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A design pattern for argument structure constructions
A
design pattern for argument structure constructions
1
A01
Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This paper presents a design pattern for handling argument structure and offers a concrete operationalization of this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar. Argument structure concerns the mapping between ‘participant structure’ (who did what to whom) and instances of ‘argument realization’ (the linguistic expression of participant structures). This mapping is multilayered and indirect, which poses great challenges for grammar design. In the proposed design pattern, lexico-phrasal constructions introduce their semantic and syntactic potential of linkage. Argument structure constructions, then, select from this potential the values that they require and implement the actual linking.
10
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Section header
8
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Part III. Managing processing
10
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JB code
cal.11.09ble
149
180
32
Article
9
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Search in linguistic processing
1
A01
Joris Bleys
Bleys, Joris
Joris
Bleys
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2
A01
Kevin Stadler
Stadler, Kevin
Kevin
Stadler
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
3
A01
Joachim De Beule
Beule, Joachim De
Joachim De
Beule
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Almost all words and syntactic patterns in human languages have multiple meanings and functions, requiring parsing and production to explore multiple hypotheses before a definite choice can be made. FCG supports standard heuristic search techniques to set up and manage search spaces and employs user-defined goal tests to verify whether acceptable end states have been reached. This chapter uses simple French phrasal constructions to illustrate both mechanisms. It first provides a worked out example without search and then looks at specific cases where search arises and how it is handled.
10
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JB code
cal.11.10wel
181
202
22
Article
10
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Organizing constructions in networks
1
A01
Pieter Wellens
Wellens, Pieter
Pieter
Wellens
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Fluid Construction Grammar supports different ways to organize the inventory of constructions into networks. This is not just usable for descriptive purposes only. It plays an important role in streamlining the processes deciding which construction to consider first. Networks become increasingly more important as the complexity, multifunctionality, and size of a grammar grows. This chapter shows how networks of constructions are represented in FCG and how they are used to optimize language processing. Two examples are explored in more detail. The first example concerns family relations of specificity between constructions and the second one concerns conditional dependencies.
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Section header
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Part IV. Case studies
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JB code
cal.11.12tri
205
236
32
Article
12
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Feature matrices and agreement
A case study for German case
1
A01
Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This paper illustrates the use of ‘feature matrices’, a technique for handling ambiguity and feature indeterminacy in feature structure grammars using unification as the single mechanism for processing. Both phenomena involve forms that can be mapped onto multiple, often conflicting values. This paper illustrates their respective challenges through German case agreement, which has become the litmus test for demonstrating how well a grammar formalism deals with multifunctionality. After reviewing two traditional solutions, the paper demonstrates how complex grammatical categories can be represented as feature matrices instead of single-valued features. Feature matrices allow a free flow of constraints on possible feature-values coming from any part of an utterance, and they postpone commitment to any particular value until sufficient constraints have been identified. All examples in this paper are operationalized in Fluid Construction Grammar, but the design principle can be extended to other unification-grammars as well.
10
01
JB code
cal.11.13beu
237
264
28
Article
13
01
Construction sets and unmarked forms
A case study for Hungarian verbal agreement
1
A01
Katrien Beuls
Beuls, Katrien
Katrien
Beuls
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01
Construction application can be made more efficient by organizing constructions into sets and by imposing an ordering on when a construction set should be considered. This technique gives us moreover a way to handle unmarked cases, which are abundant in all the world’s languages. This paper presents a non-trivial case study to introduce and illustrate the utility of construction sets, namely Hungarian verbal agreement, which is part of the Hungarian system for expressing argument structure. Hungarian verbal agreement is interesting because it has a dual conjugation system with mono-personal and poly-personal agreement, i.e. agreement with subject only or with subject and object. The choice which system is chosen depends on complex syntactic and semantic considerations. Moreover the morphemes chosen to express agreement and case marking depend on many factors, including the phonological properties of the stem. This chapter therefore illustrates not only how construction sets are useful but also how construction grammar can take multiple linguistic levels into account.
10
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cal.11.14spr
265
298
34
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14
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Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity
A case study for German spatial phrases
1
A01
Michael Spranger
Spranger, Michael
Michael
Spranger
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
2
A01
Martin Loetzsch
Loetzsch, Martin
Martin
Loetzsch
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
This chapter presents an operational grammar for German spatial language, in particular German locative phrases, as a case study for processing distributed information. It investigates the complex interplay of syntactic phenomena and spatial semantics, with a specific emphasis on efficient processing of syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity. Since FCG applies constructions in a sequence one after the other, the main challenge lies in mutual dependencies between constructions, that is, some constructions require pieces of information in order to make decisions that are only later on provided by other constructions. We present solutions and design patterns for dealing with these processing issues, which all have in common the strategy of postponing decisions as long as possible in processing until all the necessary information for making the decision is available.
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Section header
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Part V. Fluidity and robustness
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JB code
cal.11.16ste
301
330
30
Article
16
01
How to make construction grammars fluid and robust
1
A01
Luc Steels
Steels, Luc
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
2
A01
Remi van Trijp
Trijp, Remi van
Remi
van
Trijp
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
01
Natural languages are fluid. New conventions may arise and there is never absolute consensus in a population. How can human language users nevertheless have such a high rate of communicative success? And how do they deal with the incomplete sentences, false starts, errors and noise that is common in normal discourse? Fluidity, ungrammaticality and error are key problems for formal descriptions of language and for computational implementations of language processing because these seem to be necessarily rigid and mechanical. This chapter discusses how these issues are approached within the framework of Fluid Construction Grammar. Fluidity is not achieved by a single mechanism but through a combination of intelligent grammar design and flexible processing principles.
10
01
JB code
cal.11.17ind
331
332
2
Miscellaneous
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Index
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