Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. Towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaning

Giulia Rambelli (1, 2, 3) , Emmanuele Chersoni (4) , Philippe Blache (3, 2) , Chu-Ren Huang (5) , Alessandro Lenci (1)

1 University of Pisa - Università di Pisa
2 ILCB - Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain
3 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
4 POLYU - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong]
5 Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies [Hong-Kong]

In this paper, we propose a new type of semantic representation of Construction Grammar that combines constructions with the vector representations used in Distributional Semantics. We introduce a new framework, Distribu-tional Construction Grammar, where grammar and meaning are systematically modeled from language use, and finally, we discuss the kind of contributions that distributional models can provide to CxG representation from a linguistic and cognitive perspective.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang, Alessandro Lenci. Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. Towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaning. First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2019), Aug 2019, Florence, Italy. ⟨hal-02146537⟩