LFG Bulletin, July 2008
Louise Mycock
Louise.Mycock at MANCHESTER.AC.UK
Mon Jun 30 09:23:31 UTC 2008
LFG BULLETIN
JULY 2008
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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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