LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 2003
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE *
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Appendix: The Sound and the Furry
Michael Edens (2003 Faux Faulkner Winner)
These were human:
GOLDILOCKS. Slim blond avatar of unreasoning womankind: who loved not
the porridge itself, nor even the act of receiving it from whatever
unknown animal might have been responsible for its preparation (and
that was her third mistake: the first being forcible or at the very
least unlawful entry into the house, the second being her disturbance
of the food; for what might have seemed her third mistake---falling
asleep in the bed of the youngest of the household---was actually not a
mistake at all, being that no self-respecting bear would harm a
sleeping prey, any more than he would have harmed young Ike McCaslin
once he had relieved himself of the compass and the gun, and tracked
Old Ben without malice or even curiosity through the as yet
undespoiled square of ground which old Ikkemotubbe had, knowing it was
not his to grant, nonetheless ceded to whatever Great White Father had
chosen to accept it, knowing it was not his to take): even so, that
was a different bear and another novel, and I can no longer remember
the subject of my sentence.
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* OTHER NEWS *
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LFG 2003:
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LFG03 was held 16-18 July 2003 in Saratoga Springs, NY hosted by George Aaron
Broadwell.
The proceedings will appear at the end of the year as a CSLI On-Line
Publication. Papers are due 1 October 2003 and should be sent to
Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com) and Miriam Butt
(mutt@csli.stanford.edu).
LFG2005:
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University of Bergen, Norway
dates to be determined
contacts: Helge Dyvik (helge.dyvik@lili.uib.no)
Victoria Rosen (victoria.rosen@lili.uib.no)
LFG2004 CALL FOR PAPERS:
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July 10-12, 2004
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
contacts: Ida Toivonen
Ash Asudeh (asudeh@csli.stanford.edu)
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/
Note: A Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned
for 4 July to 8 July 2004, immediately preceding the LFG 2004
conference. Details available through the conference web site.
First Call for Papers: LFG 2004
2004 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
DATES 10-12 July 2004
Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2004
Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
(see addresses below)
The 9th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
hosted by the Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, in
Christchurch, New Zealand from 10 to 12 July 2004. A pre-conference
activity is planned for 9 July.
For the week preceding the conference weekend (4-8 July 2004), a
Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned. See
the end of this CFP for further details. The Winter School is yet to
be confirmed.
LFG 2004 welcomes work within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and
computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach
to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among
researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar,
where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable)
constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of
syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 40-minute talks (30 min. +
10 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions
should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research,
with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and
perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or
computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.
DISSERTATION SESSION
We plan to hold a special session for students to present recent PhD
dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The
dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and
they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide
Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the
contents of the dissertation; the time slots for the presentations
will be 30 minutes in total. The International LFG Association
(ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at
the student session.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.
WORKSHOPS
We also invite proposals for workshops -- a small group of talks (2-4)
on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate opposing views
and discussion with the broader audience. Panelists for workshops are
usually determined by the workshop organizers. Workshop papers should
be distributed in advance among panelists so they can cross-reference
one another's approaches.
At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with specific interests. The
suggestions should be sent to the local organizers at:
ida.toivonen@canterbury.ac.nz
asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2004
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2004
Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2004
Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2004
Conference: 10-12 July 2004
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters and the dissertation session must be
received by February 15, 2004. All abstracts should be sent to the
program committee at the addresses given below. For workshops,
further site information, or offers of organisational help, contact
the local organisers at the addresses below.
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be
up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title.
Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self reference. Note: we no
longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related
structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract,
obeying the overall two-page limit.
Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email
submission is preferred.
The following information should be provided on a separate page or in
the body of the email:
PAPER TITLE: ________________________________________
(for each author:)
NAME: _____________________________
AFFILIATION: _____________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________
IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___
(for author of contact:)
MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________
_____________________________
PHONE NUMBER: _____________________________
FAX NUMBER: _____________________________
SESSION TYPE: _______________________
(Should submission be considered for (1) either talk or poster, (2)
only talk, (3) only poster/demonstration, (4) dissertation session.)
(for dissertation session submissions:)
UNIVERSITY: _____________________________
ADVISOR(S): _____________________________
(EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _____________________
(Note: In the absence of session type specification, submissions will
be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the
program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as
poster presentations than as read papers.)
Submission by Regular Mail:
Include:
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with author information.
Submission by Email:
Include the author information in the body of your email
message. Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred
file formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML
and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special
care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all
fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version
of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then
the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all
platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper
size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility
to send us a file that we and our reviewers can print. You can often
test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as
Ghostview.)
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI
Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume
published by CSLI Publications.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee:
Email: Jonas Kuhn jonask@mail.utexas.edu
Tara Mohanan elltaram@nus.edu.sg
Mail: LFG 2004
c/o Tara Mohanan
Department of English Language and Literature
FASS Block 5, 7 Arts Link
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117570
Local conference organisers:
Email: Ida Toivonen ida.toivonen@canterbury.ac.nz
Ash Asudeh asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
Fax: +64 3 364 2969
Mail: Ida Toivonen
Department of Linguistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8020
New Zealand
WINTER SCHOOL IN LFG AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
A Winter School in LFG and computational linguistics is planned for
4 July to 8 July 2004. Plans are for the school to feature:
1. A one-day intensive introduction to LFG and subsequent written
and implemented exercise sessions. The goal of this section is:
a. To give sufficient broad training in LFG for novices to
participate more fully in the rest of the school and the LFG
2004 conference.
b. To give novices and researchers experienced in LFG
theory practice in implementing computational LFG
grammars.
2. A more advanced, issues-oriented computational linguistics
course, taught from an LFG perspective but with broad relevance
to the field of computational linguistics in general.
3. An advanced course or workshop on a topic of current interest to
the LFG community.
4. Evening plenary lectures.
The Winter School is yet to be confirmed.
Recent LFG Publications:
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NOTE: Please send Miriam Butt (mutt@csli.stanford.edu) or Tracy Holloway
King (thking@parc.com) email to have your publications included. The
LFG03 proceedings will be published this fall as a CSLI On-Line
Publication, as usual.
Glue logid vs. spreading architecture in LFG. 2003. Avery
Andrews.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/AveryAndrews/papers.
Clausal Syntax of German. 2003. Judith Berman. CSLI. Publications.
Nominals: Inside and Out. 2003. Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
(eds). CSLI Publications. Includes papers by: Hanjung Lee, Devyani
Sharma, Louisa Sadler, Anna Siewierska, Carmen Kelling, Erika Chisarik
and John Payne, Tibor Laczko, John Mugane; and an introduction by
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King.
Implementing and Documenting Large-scale Grammars: German
LFG. 2003. Stefanie Dipper. Stuttgart: AIMS.
Handbook for Language Engineers. 2003. Ali Farghaly. CSLI
Publications.
Porting Grammars between Typologically Similar Languages: Japanese to
Korean. 2003. Roger Kim, Mary Dalrymple, Ron Kaplan, and Tracy
Holloway King. Proceedings of PACLIC 17.
Optimality-theoretic Syntax: A Declarative Approach. 2003. Jonas
Kuhn. CSLI Publications.
Japanese Parser on the basis of the Lexical-Functional Grammar
Formalism and its Evaluation. 2003. Hiroshi Masuichi, Tomoko Ohkuma,
Hiroki Yoshimura, and Yasunari Harada. Proceedings of PACLIC 17.
The treatment of Japanese focus particles based on Lexical-Functional
Grammar. 2003. Hiroshi Masuichi, Tomoko Ohkuma, Hiroki Yoshimura, and
Yasunari Harada. Proceedings of PACLIC 17.
Baby Glue:
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Avery Andrews's newest BabyGlue implementation is now available.
BabyGlue 2.0 is a simple implementation of glue-logic-based semantic
assembly.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/\Linguistics\People\AveryAndrews\Software
This implementation does the full implicational fragment, so the two
readings of 'seek' work out without special fiddles.
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* ILFGA *
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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 at LFG03 in Saratoga Springs.
1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
Tracy Holloway King
NLTT/ISTL
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
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
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.
BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:
Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
To do so, send email to Chris Culy (culy@fxpal.com) 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
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
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 2003) to:
mutt@ccl.umist.ac.uk
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 mutt@ccl.umist.ac.uk 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.