ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Multilingual Production Principles of Lexical Collocations
MaPPLexiC aims to fill the gap in modern language theories concerning the interpretation and description of one type of idiosyncratic word constructions that stands out in terms of its frequency of use and as a measure of language proficiency, namely lexical collocations, and refute the wide-spread assumption that their production is ad hoc and therefore cannot be described in systematic terms. Inspired by the dramatic advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) MaPPLexiC considers a lexical collocation identification and classification DNN as a cognitive model, whose internal neuron activation vectors during the assessment of the collocation status of a given word combination can be translated…
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