37.1578, Confs: Constructicography in Practice: Constructions, Challenges, and Opportunities (Austria)

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Subject: 37.1578, Confs: Constructicography in Practice: Constructions, Challenges, and Opportunities (Austria)

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Date: 24-Apr-2026
From: Nina Böbel [nina.boebel at hhu.de]
Subject: Constructicography in Practice: Constructions, Challenges, and Opportunities


Constructicography in Practice: Constructions, Challenges, and
Opportunities

Date: 29-Sep-2026 - 29-Sep-2026
Location: Vienna, Austria

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Lexicography

Submission Deadline: 17-May-2026

Constructicography (Lyngfelt et al. 2018), the systematic description
of constructions in Constructicons and construction-based
lexicographic resources, has emerged as a key area at the intersection
of Construction Grammar (i.e., Croft 2001), lexicography, and
computational linguistics. While constructions have long been
acknowledged as central units of linguistic knowledge, their
consistent representation, annotation, and integration into
lexicographic resources remain methodologically and technologically
challenging.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on
theoretical, descriptive, and computational aspects of
constructicography. It will focus on how constructions are identified,
modeled, represented, and linked to lexical, semantic, and pragmatic
information across languages and resource types. Particular attention
will be paid to challenges such as construction granularity,
variation, productivity, cross-linguistic comparability, corpus-driven
discovery, and interoperability with existing lexical resources.
At the same time, the workshop highlights emerging opportunities
offered by large corpora, annotation frameworks, and NLP techniques,
including construction mining, semi-automatic Constructicon building,
and the use of large language models in constructional analysis.
Moreover, the workshop will explore applications of Constructicons,
particularly in language teaching and learning.
By fostering dialogue between linguists, lexicographers, educational
experts, and computational researchers, the workshop seeks to advance
constructicography as a mature and practically applicable field within
lexicography.
At the same time, the workshop highlights emerging opportunities
enabled by large corpora, annotation frameworks, and NLP techniques,
including construction mining, semi-automatic Constructicon
development, and the use of large language models in constructional
analysis. In addition, the workshop will explore applications of
Constructicons, particularly in language teaching and learning.
We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:
 - Theoretical foundations of constructicography
 - Methods for Constructicon (and FrameNet) development
 - Frame-based approaches to constructional meanings
 - Corpus-based identification and annotation of constructions (and,
possibly frames)
 - Defining and delimiting constructions
 - (Limits of) capturing constructional meanings by frames
 - Comparing frame-based to other approaches to constructicon building
 - Construction annotation in treebanks
 - Construction annotation in treebanks - universality of
constructions
 - Constructions and Multiword Expressions
 - Constructions and frames
 - Computational approaches to constructicography
 - Constructicons, constructions, frames, and LLMs
 - Applications in language learning, teaching, downstream NLP
applications, and beyond
Submissions: abstracts (with a maximum of 800 words, excluding
references, tables, and figures) should be sent to
constructicon2026 at del.auth.gr



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