@InProceedings{ehrlemark-johansson-lyngfelt:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Ehrlemark, Anna  and  Johansson, Richard  and  Lyngfelt, Benjamin},
  title     = {Retrieving Occurrences of Grammatical Constructions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {815--824},
  abstract  = {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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1078}
}