LFG Bulletin, July 2008

Louise Mycock Louise.Mycock at MANCHESTER.AC.UK
Mon Jun 30 09:23:31 UTC 2008


LFG BULLETIN
JULY 2008

** Please send bulletin items to me by email  **
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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 (old boilerplate section):
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2008
2. STEP Symposium 2008
3. Drafts for comments
4. Recent LFG work
5. New bulletin maintainer
6. Updating the boilerplate

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1. LFG 2008

The Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference  
will take place at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Place: Education Building, Manning Road,
http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15
Dates: Friday 4th - Sunday 6th July 2008.

The program is available on the web at:
http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG-Program.html

Attenders are asked to register as soon as possible via the LingFest  
registration page:
http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/registration.html

A bushwalk will be held on Thursday 3rd July.  Interested people  
should contact James McElvenny <james.mcelvenny at gmail.com> for more  
information.

LFG conference-specific material is available at:
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/ 
LingFest2008/LFG/

General information is available at:
http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/

The conference will be followed by the Australian Linguistics  
Institute, which includes several courses of specific interest to LFG  
participants:

ivi) Implemented LFG grammars: Using the XLE Grammar Development  
Platform - Mary Dalrymple (Professor of Linguistics, University of  
Oxford)
xvi) Australian Aboriginal Languages in Lexical-Functional Grammar -  
Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)
xxii) Interface Issues in English - Gert Webelhuth and Regine  
Eckhardt (University of Goettingen)
Specific information on ALI is available at:
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/ 
LingFest2008/ALI/

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2. STEP SYMPOSIUM 2008

The Semantics in Systems for Text Processing (STEP) Symposium will  
take place 22nd-24th September 2008 at the Università Ca' Foscari,  
Venice, Italy.

More information is available at: http://project.cgm.unive.it/html/ 
STEP2008/index.htm

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3. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

Welcome to a new section of the bulletin. 'Drafts for comments'  
offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about  
drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from  
the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the  
community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of  
the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the  
item is available online or else b) your contact email.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT ITSELF TO THE BULLETIN MAINTAINER!

Our first contribution is from Avery Andrews

Andrews (2008) `Propositional Glue and the Projection Architecture of  
LFG

http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/People/AveryAndrews/Papers/ 
propglue.pdf

Argues that glue semantics can and should be done with propositional  
linear logic rather than some kind of quantified linear logic.   
Intended to sort out some basics for Andrews' LFG-07 paper and  
various other things.

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4. RECENT LFG WORK

Dublin City University GramLab Project

PhD Thesis:

Grzegorz Chrupala "Towards a Machine-Learning Architecture for  
Lexical Functional Grammar Parsing" Dublin City University, School of  
Computing, 2008

Publications:

Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Stefan Riezler, Josef  
van Genabith, Andy Way; Wide-Coverage Deep Statistical Parsing Using  
Automatic Dependency Annotation, Computational Linguistics, Volume  
34, Issue 1, March 2008, MIT Press, pp. 81-124

Natalie Schluter and Josef van Genabith; Treebank-Based Acquisition  
of LFG Parsing Resources for French, in Proceedings of the Sixth  
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC  
2008, 28-30 May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco

Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith; Accurate and Robust  
LFG-Based Generation for Chinese, in Proceedings of the 5th  
International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG'08, June  
12th-14th, 2008, Salt Fork, Ohio, USA

Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner and Josef van  
Genabith; Parser-Based Retraining for Domain Adaptation of  
Probabilistic Generators, in Proceedings of the 5th International  
Natural Language Generation Conference INLG'08, June 12th-14th, 2008,  
Salt Fork, Ohio, USA

Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang and Josef van Genabith; Dependency-Based N- 
Gram Models for General Purpose Sentence Realisation, in Proceedings  
of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics  
COLING 2008, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester, UK.

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5. NEW BULLETIN MAINTAINER

I'd like to thank Ash Asudeh for his years as bulletin maintainer.  
It's my pleasure to be taking over.

The bulletin will come out four times a year (March, July, September,  
December). You can send items for inclusion to me at:

(reverse: manchester.ac.uk/ !at! Louise.Mycock)

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6. UPDATING THE BOILERPLATE

Previously, a lot of boilerplate (standard text) appeared at the end  
of every bulletin or, more recently, could be found at:

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

I'm including the boilerplate at the end of this bulletin as I'd like  
to take this opportunity to invite updates. If any of the following  
information needs amending, please let me know. Thanks!

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More about Lexical Functional Grammar
(Last update: 23/02/2006)

  1. The LFG website
  2. The LFG Bulletin
  3. The International Lexical Functional Grammar Association (ILFGA)

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1.  The LFG website

The official LFG website can be found at:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/

The website contains pointers and information on current research  
directions in LFG, upcoming conferences, on-line papers and  
proceedings, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about LFG, and more.

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2. The LFG bulletin

The current maintainer of the LFG Bulletin is Louise Mycock
(reverse: manchester.ac.uk !at! Louise.Mycock).

Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin via email.

Most importantly, please send information about:

- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- drafts for comments
- teaching materials
- publicly available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- job news

You can also post announcements on the LFG list
(LFG at listserv.linguistlist.org).

Thanks!
Louise Mycock

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3. ILFGA

ILFGA is the official organization for those interested in LFG.

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


3.1 Donate to ILFGA

There are three ways to make a donation:

1. Donate at the conference! The Secretary-Treasurer accepts  
donations at LFG conferences.

2. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar Assc."  
in US dollars to ILFGA's Secretary-Treasurer:

       George Aaron Broadwell
       Department of Anthropology
       Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
       University at Albany, SUNY
       1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222
       USA

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

3. Have money transferred directly into the account.  For this you  
need the account number and the ABA number (this number identifies  
the bank).

     Contact Aaron Broadwell for the required information.
     (reverse: albany.edu !at! g.broadwell)


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 Aaron Broadwell know once you have made the deposit to get  
your receipt.

ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. 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.


3.2 Be in the ILFGA database

If you work on/in LFG, please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist  
database.

To do so, send email to
Tracy Holloway King (reverse: parc.com !at! thking)
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


3.3 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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