Identifying constructions bottom-up in the International Corpus of English: Chapter 5. Data and methods

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Chapter 5
Data and methods

Published online: 14 July 2021

Article outline

5.1The International Corpus of English
5.2Data preparation and extraction
- 5.2.1Tagging and cleaning the corpora
- 5.2.2Data extraction
5.3Data annotation: Establishing constructions across levels of abstraction
- 5.3.1What counts as an argument?
  - 5.3.1.1Noun phrase constituency
  - 5.3.1.2Argument or Adjunct?
- 5.3.2Argument Structure Construction annotation
- 5.3.3Establishing the Lexically-Bound Constructions of make: Adopting and adapting the CPA procedure
  - 5.3.3.1The procedure in brief
  - 5.3.3.2Valency patterns: Motivating non-canonical patterns as LBCs
  - 5.3.3.3Motivating and defining the reduced set of semantic types
  - 5.3.3.4Motivating the addition of semantic types in a data-driven fashion
  - 5.3.3.5Motivating contextual roles in valency slots
  - 5.3.3.6Motivating lexically specified items in valency slots
  - 5.3.3.7Motivating subvalency features
  - 5.3.3.8Diverging from the CPA methodology
5.4Conclusion
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