Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
Computation and Language
2019-04-12 v1
Abstract
A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions. But what is the best model of constraint generalization? This paper evaluates competing frequency-based and association-based models across eight languages using a metric derived from the Minimum Description Length paradigm. The experiments show that association-based models produce better generalizations across all languages by a significant margin.
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@article{arxiv.1904.05529,
title = {Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar},
author = {Jonathan Dunn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05529},
year = {2019}
}