LFG Bulletin - Sept 99

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.xerox.com
Wed Sep 29 17:26:54 UTC 1999


			     LFG BULLETIN
			    SEPTEMBER 1999

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			       * NEWS *
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Announcements:
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  - Results of voting for ILFGA offices

      Our new executive committee members are:

                  Louisa Sadler
                  Jane Simpson

      Our new LFG list maintainer is:

                  Yehuda Falk

  - New program committee to start LFG2000 (Berkeley):

       Chris Manning
       Rachel Nordlinger

  - Outgoing officers are:  Farrell Ackerman, Miriam Butt (Exec. Comm.)
                            Mary Dalrymple (LFG list)
                            Miriam Butt, Tracy King (Prog. Comm.)

  - Amendment: ILFGA is currently voting on an amendment to the
               constitution to include official wording that we
               are a non-profit organization; voting ends
               October 1, 1999.

  - If you would like to join ILFGA (the International LFG
    Association), please send mail to:

       majordomo at lists.stanford.edu

    with the message:

       subscribe ilfga-members

    or contact Tracy King (thking at parc.xerox.com) in her function as
    secretary/treasurer.



Recent LFG Publications:
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Andrews, Avery and Chris Manning. 1999. Complex Predicates and
Information Spreading in LFG. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Choi, Hye-Won. Optimizing Structure in Context. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications.

Wilson, Stephen. 1999. Coverbs and Complex Predicates in
Wagiman. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.



LFG Conference Updates:
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  - LFG2000 will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA in the third week of
    July as part of the "Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000".

    The local organizer is Andreas Kathol.

    This conference will encompass LFG2000 as well as an HPSG
    conference and a day of workshops and talks of common interest.
    The conference has been scheduled to take place as shown below.

      LFG 2000:                     July 19-20
      Common sessions:              July 21
      7th Int'l HPSG Conference:    July 22-23

    Authors will be asked to submit to the LFG On-Line Proceedings as
    usual.  In addition, all presenters at the Formal Grammar
    Conference will be invited to submit their work to a volume in
    CSLI's "Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism" series (editors
    yet to be determined).


  - Thanks go to Adams Bodomo, who will be the local organizer for
    LFG2001, to be held in Hong Kong.

  - Stella Markantonatou at the National Technical University
    of Athens has expressed interest in hosting LFG2002 (to
    be held in Europe), but no decision has been taken as yet.
    If your institution is interested in hosting LFG2002, please send
    email to Tracy King (thking at parc.xerox.com) who will forward
    your request to the executive committee.  A final decision on
    the location of LFG2002 will be made at LFG2000.


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		   * Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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Time to start thinking about your abstract for LFG2000!



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		   * Past Events/Conferences *
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This year has seen the following events/conferences go by already:

    - LSA Summer school (Linguistic Society of America, Urbana-Champaign)
    - ESSLLI Summer School (European Summer School for Logic, Language
      and Information, Utrecht)
    - AILA 99 (World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo)
    - LFG 99 (Manchester)

At each of these, foundational/overview courses and talks were
held by a number of different people.

Check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for more
information and a nice summary of the highlights of these events.

  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html


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			   *  INFORMATION *
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Websites
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Andy Way has put up a website which contains own work and pointers to
other resources and papers on Deriving Linguistic Resources from
Treebanks.

	http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~away/Treebank/treebank.html

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A searchable archive of the LFG e-mail list is available at
   http://listserv/linguistlist.org/archives/lfg.html

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The LFG Website at Stanford continues to grow and welcomes proposals
for subpages and volunteers to create and maintain them.  Current
subpages include: LFG Morphosyntax, Optimal Syntax, Glue, and DOP-LFG.
These can be found at:

    http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg

If you would like to volunteer to create such pages or have ideas of
other kinds of pages, please contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking at parc.xerox.com) or Miriam Butt (miriam.butt at uni-knostanz.de)
with your suggestions.

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The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
to be at:
	
  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/


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			     * EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (December 1999) to:

      miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de
      thking at parc.xerox.com

Most importantly, please send information about:

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

Thank you,
   Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King


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		Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs

Information on the following topics is available on the LFG WebPages:

	    http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
	    http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/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 or email (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below).

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 miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de or thking at parc.xerox.com, or post them
on the LFG list (LFG at listserv.linguistlist.org).  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 on the web, by FTP, or by email.
There are three ways to get them.

(1) Most of the documents are accessible via the WWW:


The current version of the list of Frequently Asked Questions about LFG:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg-information.html

Introductions to LFG:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
 http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html

The LFG bibliography:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bibliography.html
 http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Bibliography.html

The bibliography is also available 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/

(2) You can get the documents by anonymous FTP from:

                         ftp-lfg.stanford.edu

   All of the documents are in subdirectories of the directory
   /pub/lfg. Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that
   are relevant for LFG researchers:

    in the directory /pub/lfg/bibliography:
      The LFG Bibliography in various versions and formats.

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-information:
      FAQ                  [the latest version of the list of

                            Frequently Asked Questions about LFG]

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-introductions:
      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]
      sadler.ps              [a paper on recent developments in LFG by
                              Louisa Sadler]

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-presentations:
      Slides and handouts from LFG conferences and courses.

    in the directory /pub/lfg/papers:
      Papers that have been submitted to the LFG Archive.

    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 may be other LFG-related files
    in that directory as well, which you are welcome to retrieve.


(3) You can get some files by email, via the Listserv "get"
    command.  A list of currently available files can be obtained by
    sending a message to

		  LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org

    (please note: address the message to LISTSERV, not LFG).  The
    message should contain the following command:

			      index lfg

    The following files are available, and there may be additional files
    as well:

    LFG-bulletin.txt	   [the latest version of the LFG Bulletin]
    FAQ.txt		   [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography]

    To get a file, send a message to LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org
    containing the following command:

			    get <filename>

    For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
    would send a message to LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org with
    the following command:

			     get FAQ.txt

    You will receive the file in an email message.



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