The mechanisms of comprehension during language processing remains an open question. Classically, building the meaning of a linguistic utterance is said to be incremental, step-by-step, based on a compositional process. However, many different works have shown for a long time that non-compositional phenomena are also at work. It is therefore necessary to propose a framework bringing together both approaches. We present in this paper an approach based on Construction Grammars and completing this framework in order to account for these different mechanisms. We propose first a formal definition of this framework by completing the feature structure representation proposed in Sign-Based Construction Grammars. In a second step, we present a general representation of the meaning based on the interaction of constructions, frames and events. This framework opens the door to a processing mechanism for building the meaning based on the notion of activation evaluated in terms of similarity and unification. This new approach integrates features from distributional semantics into the constructionist framework, leading to what we call Distributional Construction Grammars.

翻译：语言处理过程中的理解机制仍是一个开放性问题。传统上，构建语言表达的意义被认为是基于组合过程的增量式、逐步的过程。然而，长期以来许多不同研究已表明非组合现象同样存在作用。因此有必要提出一个融合两种方法的理论框架。本文提出一种基于构式语法的方法，通过完善该框架以解释这些不同机制。我们首先通过完善基于符号的构式语法中提出的特征结构表示，给出该框架的形式化定义。其次，我们提出基于构式、框架与事件相互作用的意义通用表征方法。该框架为基于激活概念的意义构建处理机制开辟了道路，其中激活通过相似性与合一性进行评估。这一新方法将分布语义学的特征整合至构式语法框架，形成了我们称之为分布式构式语法的理论体系。