LFG BULLETIN JULY 2008 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** (reverse: manchester.ac.uk// !at! Louise.Mycock) ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG 2008 2. STEP Symposium 2008 3. Drafts for comments 4. Recent LFG work 5. New bulletin maintainer 6. Updating the boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------