LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2010

** Please send bulletin items to me by email  **
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Next issue: June 2010

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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

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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. Boilerplate

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1. 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/

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/

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