Adding a constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken

Benjamin Lyngfelt; Lars Borin; Markus Forsberg; Julia Prentice; Rudolf Rydstedt; Emma Sköldberg; Sofia Tingsell

Adding a constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken

Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sköldberg, Sofia Tingsell; Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LexSem 2012 workshop), pp. 452-461, September 2012.

Abstract

This paper presents the integrated Swedish resource network of Språkbanken in general, and its latest addition - a constructicon - in particular. The constructicon, which is still in its early stages, is a collection of (partially) schematic multi-word units, constructions, developed as an addition to the Swedish FrameNet (SweFN). SweFN and the constructicon are integrated with other parts of Språkbanken, both lexical resources and corpora, through the lexical resource SALDO. In most respects, the constructicon is modeled on its English counterpart in Berkeley, and, thus, following the FrameNet format. The most striking differencies are the inclusion of so-called collostructional elements and the treatment of semantic roles, which are defined globally instead of locally as in FrameNet. Incorporating subprojects such as developing methods for automatic identification of constructions in authentic text on the one hand, and accounting for constructions problematic for L2 acquisition on the other, the approach is highly cross-disciplinary in nature, combining various theoretical linguistic perspectives on construction grammar with language technology, lexicography, and L2 research.

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