Adding a Constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken
Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sköldberg, Sofia Tingsell · 2012
This paper presents the integrated Swedish resource network of Språkbanken in gen-eral, 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 re-sources and corpora, through the lexical re-source SALDO. In most respects, the con-structicon is modeled on its English coun-terpart 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 glob-ally instead of locally as in FrameNet. In-corporating subprojects such as develop-ing 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 lin-guistic perspectives on construction gram-mar with language technology, lexicogra-phy, and L2 research.