March 2004 Bulletin

Ash Asudeh asudeh at csli.stanford.edu
Thu Apr 1 01:38:45 UTC 2004


                             LFG BULLETIN
                              MARCH 2004

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                               * NEWS *
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NEW BULLETIN MAINTAINER:
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Hi. My name is Ash and I'll be your bulletin maintainer.

I'd like to thank Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King for their years of
tireless bulletin maintenance.

The bulletin comes out four times a year: March, July, September, December.



LFG 2004:
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1. Preregistration deadline: May 15, 2004.

Check the conference web site for registration instructions and other
information:

	http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/

2. LFG 2004 acceptances have been sent out by the program committee.

3. The conference program will be published on the web site shortly.

4. General conference information

LFG 2004
July 10-12, 2004
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand

http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/

contacts: Ida Toivonen <ida.toivonen at canterbury.ac.nz>
          Ash Asudeh (asudeh at csli.stanford.edu>


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee:
Email:  Jonas Kuhn jonask at mail.utexas.edu
		Tara Mohanan elltaram at nus.edu.sg

Mail:   LFG 2004
        c/o Tara Mohanan
        Department of English Language and Literature
        FASS Block 5, 7 Arts Link
        National University of Singapore
		Singapore 117570

Local conference organisers:
Email:  Ida Toivonen ida.toivonen at canterbury.ac.nz
		Ash Asudeh asudeh at csli.stanford.edu

Fax:   +64 3 364 2969

Mail:   Ida Toivonen
        Department of Linguistics
        University of Canterbury
        Private Bag 4800
        Christchurch 8020
        New Zealand



WINTER SCHOOL IN LFG AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS:
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1. Preregistration deadline: May 1, 2004.

Check the winter school web site for registration instructions and other
information:

	http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school/

2. General winter school information:

COURSES
Introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar
Instructors: Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent
             University of Manchester

Computational linguistics lab class
Instructors: Mary Dalrymple and Ash Asudeh
             King's College and University of Canterbury

Issues in Computational Linguistics
Instructor: Richard Crouch and Tracy Holloway King
            Palo Alto Research Center

Advanced topic in LFG: Agreement
Instructors: Mary Dalrymple and Louisa Sadler
             King's College and University of Essex


SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Joan Bresnan
Stanford University

Annie Zaenen and Tracy Holloway King
Palo Alto Research Center

Others TBA


LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Ida Toivonen <ida.toivonen at canterbury.ac.nz>
Ash Asudeh <asudeh at csli.stanford.edu>



LFG 2005:
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University of Bergen, Norway
dates to be determined

contacts: Helge Dyvik ( helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no )
          Victoria Rosén ( victoria.rosen at lili.uib.no )



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			* RECENT LFG OUTPUT *
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Recent LFG Publications:
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Adams Bodomo
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html

Bodomo, A. B. and K. K. Luke (eds). 2003. Lexical-Functional Grammar
Analysis of Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19.

Bodomo, A. B. 2004. The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates
in Dagaare. Studia Linguistica. 58 (1): 1-22.


Anette Frank
http://www.dfki.de/~frank/chrono.html

Anette Frank and Katrin Erk (2004): "Towards an LFG Syntax-Semantics
Interface for Frame Semantics Annotation" in: Alexander Gelbukh (eds):
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, Vol. 2945, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 1--12.

Anette Frank, Louisa Sadler, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way (2003): "From
Treebank Resources to LFG F-Structures. Automatic F-Structure Annotation
of Treebank Trees and CFGs extracted from Treebanks", in: A. Abeille
(ed): Treebanks. Building and using syntactically annotated corpora,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp. 367-389.


Steve Wechsler
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Ewechsler/papers.html

Stephen Wechsler, to appear. Number as Person. Proceedings of the Fifth
Syntax And Semantics Conference In Paris.

Stephen Wechsler, to appear.Ê Elsewhere in Gender Resolution. In Kristin
Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (eds.) The Nature of the WordÑ Essays in Honor
of Paul Kiparsky. MIT Press.



Recent LFG Dissertations:
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Asudeh, Ash. 2004. Resumption as Resource Management. Ph.D. thesis,
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Supervisors: Mary Dalrymple and Peter Sells.
Available: http://www.stanford.edu/~asudeh/

Clark, Brady Zack. 2004. A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to
Syntactic Change. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Linguistics, Stanford
University.
Supervisors: Paul Kiparsky and Elizabeth Traugott.
Available soon: http://www.stanford.edu/~bzack/

Lee, On Man. 2003. The Subject Function in Cantonese. M.Phil.
dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Adams Bodomo.


Teaching materials:
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The syllabus, slides, and homeworks for Ron Kaplan and Tracy Holloway
King's grammar engineering course are available at:

	http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist239e/

These materials will eventually be moved to Tracy's web site:

	http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/thking/



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                             * ILFGA *
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DONATE TO ILFGA:  There are three ways to make a donation:

0. Donate at the conference! ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG04 in
   New Zealand.

1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
   Assc." in US dollars to:

   Tracy Holloway King
   NLTT/ISTL
   PARC
   3333 Coyote Hill Rd
   Palo Alto, CA 94304
   USA

This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.

2. Have money transfered directly into the account.  For this you
   need the account number and the ABA number (this number
   identifies the bank):

   Acct number: 01185-04085
   ABA number: 121000358

   Acct name: Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar Assc.
   Bank name: Bank of America

Note that there is usually a fee for transferring money this way and
so several people from the same institution/country may wish to
combine their donations into a single transfer.

Please let Tracy Holloway King ( thking at parc.com ) know once you
have made the deposit to get your receipt.

ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
contributions are tax deductible in the US (and perhaps elsewhere; if
you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.


BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:

   Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
   To do so, send email to Chris Culy ( culy at fxpal.com ) with the
   following information:

        NAME
        AFFILIATION
        OFFICIAL ADDRESS
        EMAIL ADDRESS
        WEB PAGE
        RESEARCH INTERESTS
        RESEARCH LANGUAGES

  The database can be accessed at:
  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-namelist.html

JOIN ILFGA:

   If you haven't yet, you can still join ILFGA, the International
   Lexical Functional Grammar Association by sending mail to

	majordomo at lists.stanford.edu

   with the message:

                   subscribe ilfga-members



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                             * EDITOR *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (July 2004) to: asudeh at csli.stanford.edu

Most importantly, please send information about:

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


Thank you,
Ash Asudeh


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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 Arnold:
	doug at essex.ac.uk

Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin to
Ash Asudeh:

	asudeh at csli.stanford.edu

or post them on the LFG list (LFG at listserv.linguistlist.org).

Most importantly, please send Ash information about:

 - recent publications or papers
 - recent dissertations
 - teaching materials
 - 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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