January 2008 Bulletin

Mon Feb 18 20:30:20 UTC 2008

LFG BULLETIN
January 2008

** Please send bulletin items to the bulletin maintainer by email  **

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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG (old boilerplate section):
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. Louise Mycock to take over as bulletin maintainer
2. Proposal for new bulletin section
3. Recent LFG work
4. Reminder of boilerplate policy

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1. NEW BULLETIN MAINTAINER

It has been my pleasure to serve the LFG community as bulletin
maintainer. However, it is time to pass the task on.

I am delighted to announce that the new bulletin maintainer
is Louise Mycock of the University of Manchester. Please join me in
welcoming Louise. You can send bulletin items to her at:

(reverse: manchester.ac.uk !at! Louise.Mycock)

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2. PROPOSAL FOR NEW BULLETIN SECTION

Avery Andrews has proposed that a new section be added to the
bulletin: 'drafts for comments'. The idea is for bulletin readers to
submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like
to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress
to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that
previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the
item is available online or else b) your contact email.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT ITSELF TO THE BULLETIN MAINTAINER!

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3. RECENT LFG WORK

Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King
(eds.). 2006. Intelligent Linguistic Architectures Variations on
Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Contributors: Ash Asudeh, Joan Bresnan, Richard R. Burton, Miriam
Butt, Dick Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, Martin Forst, Anette Frank, Josef
van Genabith, Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay, Tracy Holloway King, John
T. Maxwell III, John Mugane, Bjarne Oersnes, Stefan Riezler, Christian
Rohrer, Louisa Sadler, Beau Sheil, Neal Snider, Bonnie Webber, Juergen
Wedekind, Annie Zaenen

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Joan Bresnan, Ashwini Deo, and Devyani Sharma. 2007. Typology in
Variation: A Probabilistic Approach to be and n't in the Survey of
English Dialects. English Language and Linguistics, Volume 11, Issue  
02, Jul 2007, pp
301-346.

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Hanjung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

Hanjung Lee. To appear. Quantitative variation in Korean case ellipsis:
Implications for theories of case. In Differential Case Marking
(Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory), edited by Helen
de Hoop and Peter de Swart. Springer.

Hanjung Lee, Yoonhyoung Lee and Peter Gordon. 2007a. Linguistic
complexity and information structure in Korean: Evidence from
eye-tracking during reading. Cognition 104: 495-534.

Hanjung Lee. 2007b. Constraint subhierarchies as syntactic universals:
Evidence from variation and processing. In Architectures, Rules and
Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan, edited by Jane Grimshaw
et al., 313-344. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Hanjung Lee. 2006a. Parallel optimization in case systems: Evidence
from Korean.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15: 69-96.

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National Centre for Language Technology,
School of Computing, Dublin City University

Conor Cafferkey, Deirdre Hogan and Josef van
Genabith. 2007. Multi-Word Units in Treebank-Based Probabilistic
Parsing and Generation. In /Proceedings of the International
Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing /(/RANLP
2007/). Boverets, Bulgaria.

Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith. 2007. A
Comparative Evaluation of Deep and Shallow Approaches to the Automatic
Detection of Common Grammatical Errors, in /Proceedings of the Joint
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and
Natural Language Learning/ (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Czeck
Republic. pp.112-121.

Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith. 2007. Recovering
Non-Local Dependencies for Chinese, in /Proceedings of the Joint
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and
Natural Language Learning/ (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Czeck
Republic. pp.257-266

Deirdre Hogan, Conor Cafferkey, Aoife Cahill and Josef van
Genabith. 2007.  Exploiting Multi-Word Units in History-Based
Probabilistic Generation, in /Proceedings of the Joint Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language
Learning/ (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Czeck Republic. pp.267-276

Karolina Owczarzak, Josef van Genabith, and Andy Way. 2007. Labelled
Dependencies in Machine Translation Evaluation. In /Proceedings of ACL
2007 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation/, pages 104-111,
Prague, Czech Republic

Karolina Owczarzak, Josef van Genabith, and Andy
Way. 2007. Dependency-Based Automatic Evaluation for Machine
Translation. In /Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007 Workshop on Syntax and
Structure in Statistical Translation/. Rochester, NY.

Yafa Al-Raheb, Amine Akrout, Josef van Genabith and Joseph
Dichy. 2006.  DCU250 Arabic Dependency Bank: An LFG Gold Standard
Resource for the Arabic Penn Treebank. In /Proceedings of the Arabic
NLP/MT Conference/, British Computer Society Natural Language
Translation Specialist Group, London, 2006, pp.105-116

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4. REMINDER OF BOILERPLATE POLICY

There has traditionally been a lot of boilerplate (standard text) at
the end of every bulletin. This has made the bulletin somewhat longer
than necessary and some of the information is becoming (I suspect) out
of date.

I have moved the boilerplate to:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The  LFG website also serves much of the same function as the  
boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/