LFG Bulletin
Tracy Holloway King
thking at parc.com
Fri Jan 2 21:34:35 UTC 2004
LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2003
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE *
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The idea that Winter could actually be enjoyable would never have
occurred to Ramtop people, who had eighteen different words for snow.
All of them, unfortunately, unprintable.
Terry Pratchett "Wyrd Sisters"
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* OTHER NEWS *
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NEW BULLETIN MAINTAINER:
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We are extremely pleased to announce that Ash Asudeh will be taking
over as bulletin maintainer starting with the March bulletin.
Please send any bulletin items to him at:
asudeh at csli.stanford.edu
Ash has promised to provide the same prompt and courteous service that
we have and so we are able to resign our position with no regrets
whatsoever.
LFG2004 CALL FOR PAPERS:
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**ABSTRACTS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 15**
July 10-12, 2004
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
contacts: Ida Toivonen
Ash Asudeh (asudeh at csli.stanford.edu)
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/
Note: A Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned
for 4 July to 8 July 2004, immediately preceding the LFG 2004
conference. Details available through the conference web site.
First Call for Papers: LFG 2004
2004 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
DATES 10-12 July 2004
Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2004
Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
(see addresses below)
The 9th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
hosted by the Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, in
Christchurch, New Zealand from 10 to 12 July 2004. A pre-conference
activity is planned for 9 July.
For the week preceding the conference weekend (4-8 July 2004), a
Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned. See
the end of this CFP for further details. The Winter School is yet to
be confirmed.
LFG 2004 welcomes work within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and
computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach
to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among
researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar,
where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable)
constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of
syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 40-minute talks (30 min. +
10 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions
should 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. Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.
DISSERTATION SESSION
We plan to hold a special session for students to present recent PhD
dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The
dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and
they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide
Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the
contents of the dissertation; the time slots for the presentations
will be 30 minutes in total. The International LFG Association
(ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at
the student session.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.
WORKSHOPS
We also invite proposals for workshops -- a small group of talks (2-4)
on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate opposing views
and discussion with the broader audience. Panelists for workshops are
usually determined by the workshop organizers. Workshop papers should
be distributed in advance among panelists so they can cross-reference
one another's approaches.
At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with specific interests. The
suggestions should be sent to the local organizers at:
ida.toivonen at canterbury.ac.nz
asudeh at csli.stanford.edu
TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2004
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2004
Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2004
Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2004
Conference: 10-12 July 2004
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters and the dissertation session must be
received by February 15, 2004. All abstracts should be sent to the
program committee at the addresses given below. For workshops,
further site information, or offers of organisational help, contact
the local organisers at the addresses below.
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be
up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title.
Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self reference. Note: we no
longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related
structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract,
obeying the overall two-page limit.
Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email
submission is preferred.
The following information should be provided on a separate page or in
the body of the email:
PAPER TITLE: __________________________________________
(for each author:)
NAME: _______________________________
AFFILIATION: _______________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS: _______________________________
IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___
(for author of contact:)
MAIL ADDRESS: _______________________________
_______________________________
PHONE NUMBER: _______________________________
FAX NUMBER: _______________________________
SESSION TYPE: _________________________
(Should submission be considered for (1) either talk or poster, (2)
only talk, (3) only poster/demonstration, (4) dissertation session.)
(for dissertation session submissions:)
UNIVERSITY: _______________________________
ADVISOR(S): _______________________________
(EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _______________________
(Note: In the absence of session type specification, submissions will
be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the
program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as
poster presentations than as read papers.)
Submission by Regular Mail:
Include:
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with author information.
Submission by Email:
Include the author information in the body of your email
message. Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred
file formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML
and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special
care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all
fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version
of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then
the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all
platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper
size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility
to send us a file that we and our reviewers can print. You can often
test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as
Ghostview.)
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI
Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume
published by CSLI Publications.
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
A Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned for
4 July to 8 July 2004. Plans are for the school to feature:
1. A one-day intensive introduction to LFG and subsequent written
and implemented exercise sessions. The goal of this section is:
a. To give sufficient broad training in LFG for novices to
participate more fully in the rest of the school and the LFG
2004 conference.
b. To give novices and researchers experienced in LFG
theory practice in implementing computational LFG
grammars.
2. A more advanced, issues-oriented computational linguistics
course, taught from an LFG perspective but with broad relevance
to the field of computational linguistics in general.
3. An advanced course or workshop on a topic of current interest to
the LFG community.
4. Evening plenary lectures.
The Winter School is yet to be confirmed.
LFG2005:
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University of Bergen, Norway
dates to be determined
contacts: Helge Dyvik (helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no)
Victoria Rosen (victoria.rosen at lili.uib.no)
Recent LFG Publications:
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NOTE: Please send Ash Asudeh (asudeh at csli.stanford.edu) email to have
your publications included.
Lexical-Functional Grammar Analysis of Chinese. 2003. Adams Bodomo and
K. K. Luke (Editors). Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19.
Case Systems: Beyond Structural Distinctions. 2003. Miriam Butt and
Tracy Holloway King. In Brandner and Zinsmeister (Ed.) New
Perspectives on Case Theory. CSLI Publications. 53-87.
Grammar Writing, Testing, and Evaluating. 2003. Miriam Butt and
Tracy Holloway King. In Farghaly (Ed.) A Handbook for Language
Engineers. CSLI Publications. 129-179.
Recent Advances in Example-based Machine Translation. 2003. Michael
Carl and Andy Way (eds.). Kluwer.
>From Treebank Resources to LFG F-Structures. Automatic F-Structure
Annotation of Treebank Trees and CFGs extracted from Treebanks.
2003. Anette Frank, Louisa Sadler, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way. In
A. Abeille (ed): Treebanks. Building and using syntactically annotated
corpora, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LFG03 CONFERENCE. 2003. CSLI On-Line
Publications.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/hand/miscpubsonline.html
Papers include:
* Matthew Beach
Asymmetries between Passivization and Antipassivization in the
Tarramiutut Subdialect of Inuktitut
* Leonoor van der Beek
The Dutch it-cleft Constructions
* Kersti Börjars, Elisabet Engdahl and Maia Andréasson
Subject and Object Positions in Swedish
* Adams Bodomo, Olivia Lam and Natalie Yu
Double Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese
* George Aaron Broadwell
Optimality, Complex Predication, and Parallel Structures in Zapotec
* Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King and John T. Maxwell III
Complex Predication via Restriction
* Lionel Clement and Alexandra Kinyon
Generating LFGs with a MetaGrammar
* Elizabeth Coppock
Sometimes It's Hard to be Coherent
* Amy Dahlstrom
Focus Constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)
* Lachlan Duncan
The Syntactdic Structure of Tz'utujil (Maya)
* Yehuda Falk
The English Auxiliary System Revisted
* Martin Forst
Treebank Conversion --- Creating a German F-structure Bank from
the TIGER Corpus
* Anette Frank
Projecting LFG F-structures from Chunks
* Ronald M. Kaplan and Tracy Holloway King
Low-level Markup and Large-scale LFG Grammar Processing
* Valia Kordoni
Valence Alternations in German: An LMT Analysis
* Jonas Kuhn
Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG
* KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
Universal and Language-particular Constraints in OT-LFG
* Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
Input, Output Candidates, Markedness Constraints, and
Ineffability in OT-LFG
* Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
The Syntax and Semantics of Tensed Nominals
* M.C. O'Connor
Differential Possessor Expression: Are Pair-Wise Comparisons
Ever Required?
* Ryo Otoguro
Focus Clitics and Discourse Information Spreading
* Andrew Spencer
A Realizational Approach to Case
* Cholthicha Sudmuk
The thuuk Construction in Thai
* Jürgen Wedekind and Bjarne Ørsnes
Restriction and Verbal Complexes in LFG: A Case Study for Danish
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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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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (March 2004) to:
asudeh at csli.stanford.edu
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 mutt at ccl.umist.ac.uk or thking at parc.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.
More information about the LFG
mailing list