Category: construction grammar

Syntactic variation across the grammar: Modelling a complex adaptive system

September 29, 2023

Dunn, J. (2023). “Syntactic variation across the grammar: modelling a complex adaptive system.” Frontiers in Complex Systems. DOI: 10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1273741 Abstract. While language is a complex adaptive system, most work on syntactic variation observes a few individual constructions in isolation from the rest of the grammar. This means that the grammar, a network which connects thousands … More Syntactic variation across the grammar: Modelling a complex adaptive system

Exploring the Constructicon

January 30, 2023

Dunn, J. (2023). “Exploring the Constructicon: Linguistic Analysis of a Computational CxG.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on CxGs and NLP @ the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics / SyntaxFest. Association for Computational Linguistics. Abstract. Recent work has formulated the task for computational construction grammar as producing a constructicon given a corpus of usage. … More Exploring the Constructicon

Exposure and Emergence in Usage-Based Grammar

October 22, 2022

Dunn, J. (2022). “Exposure and Emergence in Usage-Based Grammar: Computational Experiments in 35 Languages.” Cognitive Linguistics. 33(4): 659-699. Abstract. This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a learner’s exposure to actual language use, the mechanisms of such … More Exposure and Emergence in Usage-Based Grammar

Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time

September 12, 2022

Dunn, J. and Wong, S. (2022). “Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time.” In Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022). 26-36. Abstract. This paper analyses the degree to which dialect classifiers based on syntactic representations remain stable over space and time. While previous work has shown that the combination of … More Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time

Cognitive Linguistics Meets Computational Linguistics

June 9, 2022

Dunn, J. (2022). “Cognitive Linguistics Meets Computational Linguistics: Construction Grammar, Dialectology, and Linguistic Diversity.” In Tay, D. & Xie Pan, M. (eds.), Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights. 273-308. Berlin: De Gruyter. Abstract. Computational linguistics and cognitive linguistics come together when we use data-driven methods to conduct linguistic experiments on corpora. This chapter … More Cognitive Linguistics Meets Computational Linguistics

Construction Grammars Converge Given Increased Exposure

October 13, 2021

Dunn, J. & Tayyar Madabushi, H. (2021). “Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across RegistersGiven Increased Exposure.” Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2021). Association for Computational Linguistics. Abstract. This paper measures the impact of increased exposure on whether learned construction grammars converge onto shared representations when trained on data from different registers. … More Construction Grammars Converge Given Increased Exposure

Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction

April 19, 2021

Dunn, J. & Nini, A. (2021). “Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021). Association for Computational Linguistics. 149-159. Abstract. This paper asks whether a distinction between production-based and perception-based grammar induction influences either (i) the growth curve of grammars … More Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction

Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages

July 22, 2019

Dunn, J. (2019). “Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology.” In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation. Abstract. The goal of this paper is to provide a complete representation of regional linguistic variation on a global scale. To this end, the paper focuses on removing three constraints that have previously limited … More Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages

Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English

April 11, 2019

Dunn, J. (2019). “Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification.” In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (NAACL 19). Association for Computational Linguistics. 42-53. Abstract. This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper … More Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English

Frequency vs. Association in Usage-Based Grammar

April 11, 2019

Dunn, J. (2019). “Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (NAACL 19). Association for Computational Linguistics. 117-128. 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 … More Frequency vs. Association in Usage-Based Grammar