Anna Ehrlemark


2016

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Retrieving Occurrences of Grammatical Constructions
Anna Ehrlemark | Richard Johansson | Benjamin Lyngfelt
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

Finding authentic examples of grammatical constructions is central in constructionist approaches to linguistics, language processing, and second language learning. In this paper, we address this problem as an information retrieval (IR) task. To facilitate research in this area, we built a benchmark collection by annotating the occurrences of six constructions in a Swedish corpus. Furthermore, we implemented a simple and flexible retrieval system for finding construction occurrences, in which the user specifies a ranking function using lexical-semantic similarities (lexicon-based or distributional). The system was evaluated using standard IR metrics on the new benchmark, and we saw that lexical-semantical rerankers improve significantly over a purely surface-oriented system, but must be carefully tailored for each individual construction.

2014

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Using language technology resources and tools to construct Swedish FrameNet
Dana Dannélls | Karin Friberg Heppin | Anna Ehrlemark
Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing