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Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
[Constructional Approaches to Language 22] 2018
► pp. 229–253

Chapter 8
Linguistics vs. language technology in constructicon building and use

In this chapter, we describe the close interaction of linguists and language technologists in the Swedish constructicon project. This kind of collaboration is not so common today, because of the way that language technology has developed in recent decades, but in our case the collaboration has been very successful, and constituted a genuine instance of cross-fertilization, where an evolving language technology infrastructure and a computational lexical macroresource described in the chapter has formed an integral part of the Swedish constructicon development environment, while at the same time the structured linguistic knowledge described in the constructicon has informed the language technology making up the infrastructure.

Keywords: language technology, natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine learning, grammatical framework, computational lexical resource, corpus, Swedish, research infrastructure
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Some theoretical and methodological observations
  • 3.The role of language technology in constructicon population
    • 3.1Towards a lexical macroresource for Swedish language technology
    • 3.2A general lexical infrastructure and a language-aware lexicon editor
    • 3.3Mining corpora for construction candidates with language tools
  • 4.Using constructicons in language technology systems
    • 4.1Using the Swedish constructicon for language analysis
    • 4.2The database of Swedish constructions
    • 4.3Grammatical framework
    • 4.4Constructing a computational constructicon
    • 4.5Preliminary analysis of the automatically generated computational constructicon
  • 5.Conclusion and outlook
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 17 July 2018
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