With Andrea Nini, Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Abstract: This paper asks whether a distinction between production-based and perception-based grammar induction influences either (i) the growth curve of grammars and lexicons or (ii) the similarity between representations learned from independent sub-sets of a corpus. A production-based model is trained on the usage of … More Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction

[Read Full-Text] [Poster] 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 … More Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar