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@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@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@lists.stanford.edu

    with the message:

                    subscribe ilfga-members


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