December 2006 Bulletin

Ash Asudeh asudeh at ccs.carleton.ca
Mon Dec 11 18:49:12 UTC 2006


LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2006

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

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CONTENTS

1. LFG webpages
2. LFG 2007: Information & Call for Papers
3. LSA Linguistic Institute 2007
4. Recent LFG work
5. Reminder of boilerplate policy

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1. LFG WEBPAGES

This is a follow up about the information on websites from the  
previous bulletin.

a) The Essex website is currently the main portal:

	http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
	
Many thanks to Doug Arnold for maintaining that site.

b) Two of the subsidiary sites have been considerably improved:

	DOP-LFG
	http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/lfg-dop/
	
	Glue Semantics (bibliography, resources)
	http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~iddolev/glue_bibliography.html

Many thanks to Mary Hearne for the DOP-LFG site and to Iddo Lev for  
the Glue Semantics site.

c) The Morphosyntax and OT pages still need updating.


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2. LFG 2007

First Call for Papers: LFG 2007

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

DATES July 28-30, 2007

Stanford University, California

Conference website: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html

Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2007
Submissions should be submitted using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/LFG07/. Submissions will not be accepted in any
other way.


The 12th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be  
hosted by Stanford University, California from July 28th to 30th  
2007, just after the LSA summer linguistic institute.

LFG 2007 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.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following sites:
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/>
<http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/>


SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS

The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. +  
15 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
As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that  
will give students the chance 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 presentation  
can either summarise the thesis or focus on some salient issue dealt  
with in it. When preparing, the presenter should keep in mind the  
strict time limit for the presentation.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open  
to student submissions but that these will then be judged by the same  
criteria as any other submission. The International LFG Association  
(ILFGA) will provide a small subsidy for all student presenters at  
the conference.

TIMETABLE

Deadline for abstracts:  15 February 2007
Acceptances sent out:    31 March 2007

Conference:              July 28-30 2007


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation  
session must be received by February 15, 2007. All abstracts should  
submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be  
in the form of abstracts only.  Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages  
in 11pt 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. Please submit your abstract in .pdf, .ps or .doc  
format. If you have any trouble converting your file into this  
format, please contact the Program Committee at the addresses below.


All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will  
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI  
Publications.


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the
EasyChair submission, please contact the Programme Committee.

Program Committee

Email: Kersti Börjars <k.borjars at man.ac.uk>
        Aoife Cahill <aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie>


Local conference organisers:
     Joan Bresnan
     Tracy Holloway King
     Adams Bodomo
     Annie Zaenen


INFORMATION about Stanford, as well as accommodation and registration
details, are available on the conference website:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html


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3. LSA Linguistic Institute 2007

Website: http://linginst07.stanford.edu/

The next LSA Linguistic Institute will be held from July 1-27, 2007,  
at Stanford University. Presession (introductory) courses will be  
offered July 1-3, followed by regular session courses July 5-27. The  
theme of the institute is 'Empirical Foundations for Theories of  
Language'. There are far too many courses of relevance to LFG to list  
here; please see the website.

The institute Director is Peter Sells and the Associate Directors are  
Juliette Blevins, Eve Clark, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin, and Ivan Sag.

Please note the following collocated special events, in particular  
the LFG and HPSG conferences:

a) INSTITUTE LECTURES:

July 10: Hale Lecture
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara

July 17: Collitz Lecture
Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki

July 24: Sapir Lecture
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University


b) FORUM LECTURES:

July 8: William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

July 15: Elissa Newport, University of Rochester

July 22: Harald Baayen, MPI-Nijmegen


c) SPECIAL EVENT:

July 20-22: Mini-Course on Mixed-Effects Statistical Modelling.  
Harald Baayen, MPI-Nijmegen.


d) WORKSHOPS:

July 6-8: Variation, gradience and frequency in Phonology (Arto Anttila)

July 13-15:
Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources (EMELD) (Arienne  
Dwyer and Helen Aristar-Dry)

Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (Emily Bender and Tracy  
Holloway King)

New Techniques in Sound Pattern Research (Diana Archangeli and Jeff  
Mielke)

July 14: Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics (Mary  
Bucholtz and Kira Hall)

July 17-19: Alternative Approaches to Language Classification (Philip  
Baldi)

July 21: Empirical approaches to morphological case (Cathryn Donohue  
and Jóhanna Barddal)

July 21-22: 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
based Languages (Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian)


e) CONFERENCES:

July 20-22: 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase  
Structure
July 28-30: 12th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference


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4. RECENT LFG WORK

4.1 Ronald M. Kaplan's festschrift

At the LFG 2006 conference in Konstanz, Ron Kaplan was presented a  
festschrift entitled  'Intelligent Linguistic Architectures:  
Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan', edited by Miriam Butt,  
Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King.

It is published by CSLI Publications (available very soon) and has  
contributions from the following authors:

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


4.2 Recent LFG Publications

Asudeh, Ash and Ida Toivonen. 2006. 'Symptomatic Imperfections'.  
Journal of Linguistics 42(2): 395-422.

Asudeh , Ash and Ida Toivonen. 2006. Response to David Adger's  
‘Remarks on Minimalist feature theory and Move’. Journal of  
Linguistics 42(3): 395-422

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/

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Dalrymple, Mary and Irina Nikolaeva. 2006.  Syntax of natural and  
accidental coordination: Evidence from agreement.  Language, to appear.
								
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Dublin City University, School of Computing
http://www.dcu.ie/computing

A. Cahill and J. van Genabith, Robust PCFG-Based Generation using  
Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the  
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the  
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia

Judge, J., A. Cahill and J. van Genabith, QuestionBank: Creating a  
Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the  
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the  
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia

Chrupala, G. and J. van Genabith, Using Machine-Learning to Assign  
Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the  
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the  
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia.

Rehbein, I. and J. van Genabith, German Verbs and Pleonastic  
Prepositions,in (eds. Arsenijevic, B., T. Baldwin and B. Trawinski)  
Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Proceedings of the  
Workshop, EACL 2006, 3 April 2006, Trento, Italy, pp.57-64.

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Falk, Yehuda. 2006. Subjects and Universal Grammar: An Explanatory  
Theory. Cambridge University Press.

http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521858542

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Toivonen, Ida. 2006. 'On continuative on'. Studia Linguistica 60(2):  
181-219'.

http://www.carleton.ca/~toivonen/



4.3 Recent LFG Thesis

Cobb, Caroline. 2006.  The Syntax of Adverbs: An LFG Approach.  MPhil  
thesis, Oxford University.

http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/archive/00001092/

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5. Reminder of boilerplate policy

(Originally announced in the last bulletin)

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.

 From now on I'll just include a pointer to the boilerplate website  
and the LFG website at the top of the bulletin.

Feedback on this decision would be welcome. Please contact me by email.



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