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Frames, constructions, and computationEdited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent
[Constructions and Frames 6:1] 2014
► pp. 114–135
Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent
[Constructions and Frames 6:1] 2014
► pp. 114–135
From construction candidates to constructicon entries
An experiment using semi-automatic methods for identifying constructions in corpora
We present an experiment where natural language processing tools are used to automatically identify potential constructions in a corpus. The experiment was conducted as part of the ongoing efforts to develop a Swedish constructicon. Using an automatic method to suggest constructions has advantages not only for efficiency but also methodologically: it forces the analyst to look more objectively at the constructions actually occurring in corpora, as opposed to focusing on “interesting” constructions only. As a heuristic for identifying potential constructions, the method has proved successful, yielding about 200 (out of 1,200) highly relevant construction candidates.
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