LFG Bulletin

[Mary Dalrymple]

			     LFG BULLETIN
			      JUNE 1997

			       * NEWS *

  - LFG97 was a great success, thanks to the efforts of conference
    chair Farrell Ackerman, Yvonne Franklin, program chairs Miriam
    Butt and Tracy King, workshop organizers Maria Polinsky, Alice
    Harris, and Phil LeSourd, and a host of UCSD graduate students.
    Many thanks from all of us for organizing a stimulating and
    enjoyable conference!  

  - The proceedings of LFG97 will be an on-line publication of CSLI
    Publications, similar to the Proceedings of LFG96:
       http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/LFG/lfg1.html
    More details on the LFG97 Proceedings will be available when the
    papers have been completed and submitted.  

  - A new ftp site has been created for slides and handouts from the
    LFG97 meeting at the University of California at San Diego, June
    19 - 21:  
	     ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/slides/LFG97
    Please contact dalrymple at parc.xerox.com if you would like to make
    your slides or handouts available for anonymous FTP from this
    directory.  The file should be in some generally accessible
    format: for example, postscript or RTF.  I'd like to encourage
    everyone to do this -- it creates a good resource not only for
    conference attendees, but especially for people who were not able
    to attend the conference. 

  - LFG98 will be held at Emmanuel College, The University of
    Queensland, Australia, June 30 - July 2, 1998.  See "Upcoming
    Events" below.

  - A new version of the LFG bibliography is available, including
    papers presented at LFG97.  For instructions on how to retrieve
    the new version of the bibliography, see "How To Retrieve LFG
    Documents" below. 

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			 * UPCOMING EVENTS *

				LFG98
	      1998 Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 
	    Emmanuel College, The University of Queensland
			June 30 - July 2, 1998

LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will be
held next year in Australia, just before the Australian Linguistic
Society Meeting and the two week Australian Linguistics Institute.
The conference welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework.

		   Call for papers: September 1997
	      Abstracts and papers due: January 31, 1998
     More information: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
  Local organizers: Christopher Manning <cmanning at mail.usyd.edu.au>
                    Jane Simpson <jhs at mail.usyd.edu.au>

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		Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs

Information on the following topics (FAQs) is available on the
LFG WebPage: 
		    http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/

1.  WHAT IS LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR?
2.  WHAT ARE THE BEST INTRODUCTORY BOOKS/ARTICLES TO LFG?
3.  THE LFG WWW SITE
4.  THE LFG MAILING LIST
5.  LFG BIBLIOGRAPHY, RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN LFG
6.  HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS
7.  PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE LFG SYSTEMS
8.  CURRENT GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT EFFORT
9.  UPCOMING EVENTS

If you have access to ftp, but no access to Web, you can get a copy of
the FAQ by ftp (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below). If you
have neither ftp nor Web access, but have email, send a mail
requesting a copy of the FAQ to doug at essex.ac.uk.

Please help keep this document and the FAQ up to date!  

Send updates and suggestions for improvements to the FAQ to
doug at essex.ac.uk.

Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin
to dalrymple at parc.xerox.com, or post them on the LFG list
(lfg at list.stanford.edu).  Most importantly, please send information
about:

 - your recent publications or papers
 - publically available grammars 
 - current grammar development efforts

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		  * HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS *

Some LFG documents are available by FTP or email.  There are two ways
to get them.

(1) First, you can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
    command.  A list of available files can be obtained by sending a
    message to 

		     majordomo at list.stanford.edu

    containing the following command:

			      index lfg

    The following files are available. There may be additional files
    as well.  Send the command "index lfg" to see what is currently
    available: 


    FAQ			   [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
    pracinstrucsforlfg.ps  [an introduction to LFG notation by Michael Wescoat]
    formal-architecture.ps [an introduction to LFG by Ron Kaplan]
    neidle.ps              [an introduction to LFG by Carol Neidle]
    lfg.bib		   [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
    lfgbib.ps		   [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
    lfgbib.rtf		   [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]

    To get a file, send a message to majordomo at list.stanford.edu
    containing the following command:

		       get lfg <filename>

    For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
    would send a message to majordomo at list.stanford.edu with the
    following command:

			  get lfg FAQ

    You will receive the file in an email message.

    CAUTION: Some of the files that are available by this method are
    Postscript files, which can be VERY LARGE.  Postscript files end in
    the extension .ps (for example, the file "neidle.ps" is a Postscript
    file).  If your mailer cannot handle EXTREMELY LARGE messages, don't
    try to get these files by email.  Instead, use the FTP option,
    described below.  

(2) Second, you can get the documents by anonymous FTP from
    parcftp.xerox.com.  All of the documents are in the directory /pub/nl.
    Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that are
    relevant for LFG researchers:

    LFG-FAQ		   [the latest version of this FAQ]
    pracinstrucsforlfg.ps  [an introduction to LFG notation by Michael Wescoat]
    formal-architecture.ps [an introduction to LFG by Ron Kaplan]
    neidle.ps              [an introduction to LFG by Carol Neidle]
    lfg.bib		   [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
    lfgbib.ps		   [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
    lfgbib.rtf		   [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]

    Compressed versions of some of these files are also available.
    The file names of the compressed versions are the same, except
    they have ".gz" at the end.  There will probably be other
    LFG-related files in that directory as well, which you are welcome
    to retrieve.

(3) The LFG bibliography is also accessible via the WWW, at the CL/MT
Group Bibliographic Search Page, maintained by Doug Arnold of the
University of Essex.  The URL is: 

		   http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/search/

If you have difficulty with any of these methods, contact
dalrymple at parc.xerox.com for assistance.