LFG Bulletin

[Mary Dalrymple]

			     LFG BULLETIN
			      MARCH 1997

			       * NEWS *

  - LFG97 will be held in San Diego in June.  See "Upcoming
    Events" below.
  - A new version of the LFG bibliography is available.  Additionally,
    the format of the RTF (Rich Text Format) version of the bibliography
    has been improved considerably.  The RTF format is compatible with MS
    Word and other document editors.  For instructions on how to retrieve
    the new version of the bibliography, including the RTF version
    lfgbib.rtf, see "How To Retrieve LFG Documents" below.   Recent
    papers, including the papers to be presented at the San Diego LFG
    conference, have been added to the bibliography.

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			 * UPCOMING EVENTS *

				LFG97

			 June 19 -- 21, 1997

		  University of California-San Diego
			San Diego, California
	    Conference chair: Prof. Farrell Ackerman, UCSD

		 http://ling.ucsd.edu/lfg97/lfg97.htm

LFG97 will take place in June 1997 at the University of California-San
Diego. Papers will be presented both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and in the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist
approach to language within a parallel, constraint-based framework.

There will be a series of 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for
discussion), poster presentations, and workshops with invited
participants.  The talks and poster presentations will focus on results
from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel
approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive,
theoretical, formal or computational.

A copy of the conference announcement is available by anonymous FTP from:
	 parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement

A copy of the conference program is available by anonymous FTP from:
	 parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/lfgconference-schedule

Information about registration and accomodations is available on the
web:
		 http://ling.ucsd.edu/lfg97/lfg97.htm

Additional inquiries about the conference should be sent to
Prof. Farrell Ackerman, ackerman at ling.ucsd.edu.  

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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.