Constructicography in Practice: Constructions, Challenges, and Opportunities

Co-located with EURALEX 2026 - 29.09.2026 - Vienna, Austria

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 among linguists, lexicographers, educational experts, and computational researchers, the workshop seeks to advance constructicography as a mature, 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

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers for inclusion in a dedicated volume after the workshop.