LFG Bulletin
Tracy Holloway King
thking at parc.xerox.com
Wed Apr 5 15:49:21 UTC 2000
LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2000
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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1. *LFG 2000 PROGRAM COMING SOON!*
Many thanks to Chris Manning and Rachel Nordlinger, the
LFG 2000 Program Committee.
2. Join ILFGA, the International Lexical Functional Grammar
Association. (http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga)
You can join by sending mail to: majordono at lists.stanford.edu
with the message: subscribe ilfga-members
If you join now, you will be able to vote in the 2000 elections
this summer.
LFG Conference Updates:
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- LFG00 will be held at the University of California, Berkeley.
July 19-20, 2000. This conference is being held as part of the
"Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000" and has been scheduled
to take place as shown below.
LFG 2000: July 19-20
Common Day of Workshops: July 21
7th Int'l HPSG Conference: July 22-23
(further details below)
The program is will be mailed to this list in a few days.
Further Information can be found at:
URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000
- As usual, a business meeting will take place as part of the LFG
conference. One of the issues that will be discussed is the venue
of LFG2002. The continent for that year is Europe. We already
have a bid for Greece, but if anybody else is interested in
putting in a suggestion for LFG2002, please direct them to the
Executive Committe or bring them up at the business meeting in
Berkeley.
- LFG2001
organizer: Adams Bodomo (abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk)
venue: Hong Kong
For more information: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html
- LFG2002: somewhere in Europe
*Bids will be discussed at LFG00.*
If you would like to submit a bid but cannot attend
the conference, please contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking at parc.xerox.com).
Recent LFG Publications:
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Mary Dalrymple. Lexical-Functional Grammar. Entry in the MIT
Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, ed. Robert A. Wilson and Frank
C. Keil. The MIT Press. 1999.
Andy Way, 1999. "A Hybrid Architecture for Robust MT using LFG-DOP",
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 11,
Special Issue on Memory-Based Language Processing.
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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LFG2000:
2000 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
19 July - 20 July 2000
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000
The University of California at Berkeley
as part of the BERKELEY FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE 2000
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/
which also includes:
21 July 2000
Special Joint Workshops on:
LEXICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED GRAMMAR
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/schedule.html
Workshop: The Argument/Adjunct Dichotomy: Lexical and Constructional
Approaches
Organizers: Tracy Holloway King and Adam Przepiorkowski
Workshop: New Paradigms in Grammar Learning and Constraint-Based
Theories
Organizers: Farrell Ackerman and Gert Webelhuth
Workshop: Approaches to Mismatch
Organizers: Elaine Francis and Laura Michaelis
22 July - 23 July 2000
7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR
http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000/hpsg2000.html
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* INFORMATION *
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Websites
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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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For a continuous source of updated informtion, check out Joan
Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes":
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 2000) 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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