Jonathan K. Alderfer is an art consultant and bird artist whose illustrations are featured in National Geographic field guides. He began his artistic career in the 1980s, contributing his paintings as illustrations for The Western Tanager, the newsletter of the Los Angeles Audubon Society. As an avid and expert birder, Alderfer brings a deep understanding and passion to his detailed and accurate depictions of avian life.
This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. The computational experiments are important for testing the learnability, variability, and confirmability of Construction Grammar as a theory of language.
Corpus analysis can be expanded and scaled up by incorporating computational methods from natural language processing. This Element shows how text classification and text similarity models can extend our ability to undertake corpus linguistics across very large corpora.
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