LFG BULLETIN MARCH 2010 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** <Louise.Mycock "at" ling-phil "dot" ox "dot" ac "dot" uk>** Next issue: June 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LFG website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/ More about LFG: http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG 2009 Conference Proceedings 2. LFG 2010 Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 3. South of England LFG Meetings 4. Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics project 5. Drafts for comments 6. Recent LFG work 7. 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LFG 2009 Conference Proceedings The Proceedings from last year's LFG conference are now available online from CSLI Publications at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ CONTENTS Ahmad Alsharif and Louisa Sadler Negation in Modern Standard Arabic: An LFG Approach Pages 5-25 Budour Al Sharifi and Louisa Sadler The adjectival construct in Arabic Pages 26-43 Alex Alsina The prepositional passive as structure-sharing Pages 44-64 Ragies Pages 188-207 Aoife Cahill, Uli Heid, Christian Rohrer and Marion Weller Using tri-lexical dependencies in LFG parse disambiguation Pages 208-221 Amy Dahlstrom OBJ( without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects Pages 222-239 Lachlan Duncan A tale of two taqs: An OT-LFG account of plurals and distributives in K'ichee' Mayan Pages 240-260 Yehuda Falk Islands: A mixed analysis Pages 261-281 Maria Flouraki and Despina Kazana Constraining disjunctive constructions in Modern Greek Pages 282-296 Martin Forst and Christian Rohrer Problems of German VP coordination Pages 297-316 Yvette Graham, Anton Bryl and Josef van Genabith F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation Pages 317-337 Dag Haug med - the syntax and semantics of concomitance in Norwegian Pages 338-356 Annette Hautli and Tracy Holloway King Adapting stochastic LFG input for semantics Pages 357-377 Anna Kibort Intermediary agents and unexpressed pronouns Pages 378-398 Tibor Laczkces will be sent out after 31st March 2010 and the conference will take place 18-20 June 2010. More information about this year's LFG conference can be found on the conference website: http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. South of England LFG Meetings Prompted by the relatively high concentration of people in the area working within the LFG framework, the first South of England LFG meeting was held on 6th February 2010 at SOAS, London. The hope is that this will be the first of a series of student-oriented termly meetings. These meetings aim to bring together students, researchers and academic staff working on or interested in LFG, and to provide a forum for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective. The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, 8th May 2010 at SOAS, London. More information can be found at: http://se-lfg.tk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics project From Victoria Rosen The research group LaMoRe (Language Models and Resources) in Bergen, Norway will begin work on a new treebanking infrastructure project on April 1, 2010. The project "Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics (INESS)" has received a grant of 19 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway. The primary objective of the project is to build a "deep", high-quality, dynamic treebank for Norwegian, for use in innovative linguistic research and the development of advanced language technology applications. The treebank will be created using the computational LFG grammar NorGram, XLE, and the LFG Parsebanker. The INESS infrastructure will also host treebanks for other languages. The TIGER LFG and dependency treebanks of German, a parsebank for English developed at Powerset, and a dependency treebank for Sami will be the first to be included. Senior researchers on the project are Helge Dyvik, Paul Meurer, Koenraad De Smedt and Victoria Rosen. The project will run for five years and will be led by Victoria Rosen. -------------------------------------------------------------- 5. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS '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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. RECENT LFG WORK Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/ 6.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ 6.2 PHD/MASTERS Ines Rehbein. 2009. 'Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition for German'. National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), School of Computing, Dublin City University. Yuqing Guo. 2009. 'Treebank-Based Acquisition of Chinese LFG Resources for Parsing and Generation'. National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), School of Computing, Dublin City University. 6.3 PUBLICATIONS Avery Andrews. 2010. Grammatical vs. Lexical Constructors for Glue Semantics. To appear in 'Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society', edited by Yvonne Treis & Rik de Busser. http://www.als.asn.au Yvette Graham and Josef van Genabith. 2009. An Open Source Rule Induction Tool for Transfer-Based SMT. In 'The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Special Issue: Open Source Tools for Machine Translation', 91, ISSN 0032-6585, pages 37-46. Anton Bryl, Josef van Genabith and Yvette Graham. 2009. Guessing the Grammatical Function of a Non-Root F-Structure in LFG. In 'Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies', IWPT, Paris, 2009, pages 146-149. Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia and Josef van Genabith. 2009. Automatic Treebank-Based Acquisition of Arabic LFG Dependency Structures. 'Proceedings of the EACL-Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages', March 31, 2009, Athens, Greece, pages 45-52. Natalie Schluter and Josef van Genabith. 2009. Dependency Parsing Resources for French: Converting Acquired Lexical Functional Grammar F-Structure Annotations and Parsing F-Structures Directly. In 'Nodalida 2009 Conference Proceedings', (eds.) Kristiina Jokinen and Eckhard Bick, pages 166-173. 6.4 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers: http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/ Additional suggestions welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. BOILERPLATE The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section. http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------