LFG BULLETIN
JUNE 1997
* NEWS *
- LFG97 was a great success, thanks to the efforts of conference
chair Farrell Ackerman, Yvonne Franklin, program chairs Miriam
Butt and Tracy King, workshop organizers Maria Polinsky, Alice
Harris, and Phil LeSourd, and a host of UCSD graduate students.
Many thanks from all of us for organizing a stimulating and
enjoyable conference!
- The proceedings of LFG97 will be an on-line publication of CSLI
Publications, similar to the Proceedings of LFG96:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/LFG/lfg1.html
More details on the LFG97 Proceedings will be available when the
papers have been completed and submitted.
- A new ftp site has been created for slides and handouts from the
LFG97 meeting at the University of California at San Diego, June
19 - 21:
ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/slides/LFG97
Please contact dalrymple@parc.xerox.com if you would like to make
your slides or handouts available for anonymous FTP from this
directory. The file should be in some generally accessible
format: for example, postscript or RTF. I'd like to encourage
everyone to do this -- it creates a good resource not only for
conference attendees, but especially for people who were not able
to attend the conference.
- LFG98 will be held at Emmanuel College, The University of
Queensland, Australia, June 30 - July 2, 1998. See "Upcoming
Events" below.
- A new version of the LFG bibliography is available, including
papers presented at LFG97. For instructions on how to retrieve
the new version of the bibliography, see "How To Retrieve LFG
Documents" below.
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* UPCOMING EVENTS *
LFG98
1998 Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
Emmanuel College, The University of Queensland
June 30 - July 2, 1998
LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will be
held next year in Australia, just before the Australian Linguistic
Society Meeting and the two week Australian Linguistics Institute.
The conference 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.
Call for papers: September 1997
Abstracts and papers due: January 31, 1998
More information: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
Local organizers: Christopher Manning <cmanning@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Jane Simpson <jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au>
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Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Information on the following topics (FAQs) is available on the
LFG WebPage:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/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 (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below). If you
have neither ftp nor Web access, but have email, send a mail
requesting a copy of the FAQ to doug#essex.ac.uk.
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 dalrymple@parc.xerox.com, or post them on the LFG list
(lfg@list.stanford.edu). 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 by FTP or email. There are two ways
to get them.
(1) First, you can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
command. A list of available files can be obtained by sending a
message to
majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
index lfg
The following files are available. There may be additional files
as well. Send the command "index lfg" to see what is currently
available:
FAQ [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
To get a file, send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
get lfg <filename>
For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
would send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu with the
following command:
get lfg FAQ
You will receive the file in an email message.
CAUTION: Some of the files that are available by this method are
Postscript files, which can be VERY LARGE. Postscript files end in
the extension .ps (for example, the file "neidle.ps" is a Postscript
file). If your mailer cannot handle EXTREMELY LARGE messages, don't
try to get these files by email. Instead, use the FTP option,
described below.
(2) Second, you can get the documents by anonymous FTP from
parcftp.xerox.com/. All of the documents are in the directory /pub/nl.
Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that are
relevant for LFG researchers:
LFG-FAQ [the latest version of this FAQ]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
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 will probably be other
LFG-related files in that directory as well, which you are welcome
to retrieve.
(3) The LFG bibliography is also accessible via the WWW, 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/
If you have difficulty with any of these methods, contact
dalrymple@parc.xerox.com for assistance.