LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2002
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE NEWS *
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The talk had covered the state of the Union, the state of the feminine
mind, whether any cooked oyster can be fit to eat, structural
linguistics, and the prices of books. It had got hot only on the
feminine mind, and Lon had done that purposely to see how sharp Wolfe
could get.
Rex Stout
The Doorbell Rang (A Nero Wolfe Mystery), p. 14
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* OTHER NEWS *
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Recent LFG Publications:
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The LFG01 PROCEEDINGS are out.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/6/lfg01.html
Jonas KUHN. 2001. Computational Optimality-theoretic Syntax: A
Chart-based Approach to Parsing and Generation. In C. Rohrer,
A. Rossdeutscher, and H. Kamp (Eds.) Linguistic Form and its
Computation. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Philippa Helen COOK. 2001. Coherence in German: An information
structure approach. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Manchester.
Andy WAY. 2001. LFG-DOT: A Hybrid Architecture for Robust
MT. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Essex.
(Please send us the citation for your recent publications to include
in the next issue; announcements of publicly available theses are
encouraged.)
Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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- LFG 2004: Proposals now being accepted. Contact Tracy Holloway
King at thking@parc.com if you are interested in hosting LFG04.
- LFG2002, Athens, 3-5 July 2002
Now accepting pre-registration.
Program will be available soon.
organizers: Dr. Yanis Maistros
Dr. Stella Markantonatou
email: marks@ilsp.gr
web page: http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/
- LFG2003, State University of New York, Albany
local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
email contact: g.broadwell@albany.edu
Exact dates are yet to be determined.
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* ILFGA *
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VOTING: There will be a vote to replace two of the executive committee
members coming up this summer. In order to vote you must be an ILFGA
member. There is no fee to belong. All you have to do is send mail
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with the message:
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DONATE TO ILFGA: There are three ways to make a donation:
0. Donate at the conference!
ILFGA will be accepting donations in euros at Athens.
1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
Tracy Holloway King
NLTT/ISTL
PARC
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USA
This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.
2. Have money transfered directly into the account.
Please let the ILFGA Treasurer, Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com), know if you
want to make a donation in this way.
ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
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you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 2002) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.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.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.