LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 1999
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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The LFG99 On-Line Proceedings are out:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/4/
We'd like to thank all of the contributors for getting together a nice
proceedings.
(Other) Recent LFG Publications:
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Lødrup, Helge. 1999. Inalienables in Norwegian and binding
theory. Linguistics 37(3):365-388.
M. Johnson, S. Geman, S. Canon, Z. Chi and S. Riezler (1999)
``Estimators for Stochastic ``Unification-based'' Grammars'' to
appear in The Proceedings of the ACL 1999.
LFG Conference Updates:
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- LFG2000: see below.
In particular, look for the information on the
pre-conference hike.
- LFG2001
organizer: Adams Bodomo
venue: Hong Kong
- LFG2002: somewhere in Europe
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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CALL FOR PAPERS
LFG2000
2000 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
19 July - 20 July 2000
The University of California at Berkeley
as part of the BERKELEY FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE 2000
URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/
Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2000
Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
(see addresses below)
The 5th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held as a part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the
University of California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000. The Berkeley
event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20), HPSG2000 (July 22-23) and
a common day of workshops between them (July 21), entitled Lexical and
Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar. This event
will offer a rare opportunity for interaction among researchers of the
two frameworks.
LFG2000 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and 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
nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple levels, including category
information, grammatical relations, and semantic information. Further
information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
SUBMISSIONS
The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, and possibly a
workshop. Talks will 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.
Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 1999, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops are 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. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.
Past LFG Conferences have included two or three workshops. Since
LFG2000 is shorter than usual, and there is a common day of
workshops between LFG2000 and HPSG2000 on July 21, we may not have any
workshops specific to LFG2000. However, at this point in time, we
welcome suggestions for workshops from potential organisers or people
with certain interests. Suggestions for workshops specific to LFG2000
should be sent to the program committee:
r.nordlinger@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au and manning@csli.stanford.edu.
Suggestions for workshops for the common day on Lexical and Constructional
Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar should be sent to the local
organizers at bfg2000@linguistics.berkeley.edu.
TIMETABLE
Deadline for receipt of submissions: 15 February 1999
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 1999
Conference: 19 July - 20 July 1999
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for
refereeing. The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows
better assessment of your work and that (at least for some people)
accepted refereed full papers count as a higher status
publication.
Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page. Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for
review. Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the
beginning.
Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.
Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.
Regular Mail:
Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.
Email:
Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax
number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the
body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your paper as
either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file. Postscript
files require special care to avoid problems: make sure the 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 us and our reviewers can
print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a
previewer.
All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two 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 paper/abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
Chris Manning <manning@csli.stanford.edu>
Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>
Mail:
LFG2000
c/o Chris Manning
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
USA
Contact the local conference organisers at: bfg2000@linguistics.berkeley.edu
PRE-CONFERENCE HIKE
Following recent LFG tradition, there will be a pre-conference social
event on Tuesday July 18. This will involve a hike and picnic lunch
in Tilden Park, a beautiful area not too far from the Berkeley campus.
Other activities apart from hiking are also available (e.g. botanical
garden, swimming in the lake). For further details see
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden.htm
For information about longer hikes nearby see
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/wildcat.htm
Transportation from Berkeley and a picnic lunch will be arranged for a
modest fee. This event is not restricted to the LFG community, but is
open to anyone attending the Berkeley Formal Grammar conference.
Please contact Mary Dalrymple (dalrymple@parc.xerox.com) as soon as
possible if you are interested in attending.
ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration details
will be included in a subsequent call for papers.
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* INFORMATION *
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Websites
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The LFG Website at Stanford continues to grow and welcomes proposals
for subpages and volunteers to create and maintain them. Current
subpages include: LFG Morphosyntax, Optimal Syntax, Glue, and DOP-LFG.
These can be found at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg
If you would like to volunteer to create such pages or have ideas of
other kinds of pages, please contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking@parc.xerox.com) or Miriam Butt (miriam.butt@uni-knostanz.de)
with your suggestions.
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The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
to be at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/
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For a continuous source of updated informtion, check out Joan
Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes":
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (March 2000) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.xerox.com
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#essex.ac.uk.
Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin
to miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de or thking@parc.xerox.com, or post them
on the LFG list (LFG@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 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@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@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@listserv.linguistlist.org with
the following command:
get FAQ.txt
You will receive the file in an email message.