Laura A. Michaelis
2025
Annotating English Verb-Argument Structure via Usage-Based Analogy
Allen Minchun Hsiao
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Laura A. Michaelis
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP
This paper introduces a usage-based framework that models argument structure annotation as nearest-neighbor classification over verb–argument structure (VAS) embeddings. Instead of parsing sentences separately, the model aligns new tokens with previously observed constructions in an embedding space derived from semi-automatic corpus annotations. Pilot studies show that cosine similarity captures both form and meaning, that nearest-neighbor classification generalizes to dative alternation verbs, and that accuracy in locative alternation depends on the corpus source of exemplars. These results suggest that analogical classification is shaped by both structural similarity and corpus alignment, highlighting key considerations for scalable, construction-based annotation of new sentence inputs.
2015
How Constructions Mean
Paul Kay
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Laura A. Michaelis
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
2010
Identifying Assertions in Text and Discourse: The Presentational Relative Clause Construction
Cecily Jill Duffield
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Jena D. Hwang
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Laura A. Michaelis
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics