LFG Bulletin, September 2008

Wed Sep 24 15:33:43 UTC 2008

LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 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 2009
2. Venue for LFG 2010
3. ILFGA: New Chair and Program Committee member
4. Drafts for comments
5. Downloadable LFG papers
6. Recent LFG work
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2009

The following is from Anna Kibort, local organizer for next year's  
LFG conference.

14th INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
13-16 July 2009
Cambridge, UK
Conference website: http://www.lfg09.net

The 14th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be  
held at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, from July 13th to 16th 2009.  
Pre-conference activities are planned for July 11th and 12th.

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2. VENUE FOR LFG 2010

The venue for LFG 2010 will be Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen will be the local organizers. This is the  
second time Ash and Ida will have organized the LFG conference,  
having previously been our hosts in the Southern Hemisphere at the  
University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2004.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/9/lfg04.html

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3. ILFGA: NEW CHAIR AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER

Nigel Vincent is the new Chair of the ILFGA's Executive Committee,  
taking over from Helge Lødrup. Louisa Sadler joins the Program  
Committee, replacing Kersti Börjars. Thanks to all!

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4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'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

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5. DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

 From Avery Andrews:

I've put up a list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG  
papers at:

http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions would be quite welcome!

- Avery ** (reverse: anu.edu.au/ !at! Avery.Andrews) **)
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6. RECENT LFG WORK

6.1 Conference Proceedings

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.html

The 2007 Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks proceedings, which  
contains several LFG papers, are at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/geaf07.html

You can find the 2008 proceedings at:
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/#1700

6.2 PhD Dissertation

Tatiana Nikitina (2008). The mixing of syntactic properties and  
language change. Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/~tann/nikitina_diss.pdf

6.3 Publications

D. G. Bobrow, B.Cheslow, C. Condoravdi, L. Karttunen, T.H. King, R.  
Nairn, V. de Paiva, C. Price, and A. Zaenen (2007). 'PARC's Bridge  
and Question Answering System'. Proceedings of the Grammar  
Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF07) Workshop, pp. 46-66, CSLI  
Publications.
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/papers/ 
geaf07bobrowetal.pdf

T. Boegel, M. Butt, A. Hautli and S. Sulger (2007) ‘Developing a  
Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Urdu and Hindi’.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Finite-State  
Methods and Natural Language Processing,
Potsdam, September.

Butt, M. and T.H. King (2007). ‘Urdu in a Parallel Grammar  
Development Environment’. In T. Takenobu and C.-R. Huang (eds.)  
Language Resources and Evaluation:Special Issue on Asian Language  
Processing: State of the Art Resources and Processing 41:191–207.

D. Crouch and T.H. King (2008) 'Type-checking in Formally Non-typed  
Systems'. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Software Engineering,  
Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing, pp.3-4.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/W08-0502.pdf

S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister and M. Butt (eds.) (2007). 'Hybrid  
Methods'. Topical Computational Linguistic Issue of the Zeitschrift  
fuer Sprachwissenschaft 26(2).

Yehuda N. Falk (2008). 'Functional Relations in the English Auxiliary  
System'. Linguistics 46: 861-889.

J. Fang and T.H. King (2007) 'An LFG Chinese Grammar for Machine  
Use'. Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks  
(GEAF07) Workshop, pp. 144-160, CSLI Publications.
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/papers/ 
geaf07fangking.pdf

Helge Lødrup (2008). 'Raising to Object in Norwegian and the Derived  
Object Constraint'. Studia Linguistica 62, 2: 155-181.

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7. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end  
of every bulletin can be accessed at:

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

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the  
boilerplate section.

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

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