LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 2004*
* My apologies for missing the July bulletin.
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* REQUEST *
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Database of linguists working in LFG
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Several entries in the LFG researchers database need updating (broken
links, out of date information, etc.)
To update your entry, please send email to Chris Culy <culy@fxpal.com>.
For information about adding your details to the database, see under ILFGA
below, or visit:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/
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* NEWS *
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LFG Bibliography
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Miriam Butt has updated the LFG bibliography. It is available at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bibliography.html
Thank you, Miriam!
If you would like anything included in the next revision, please email the
information to Miriam Butt <miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de>.
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International Workshop on Human Language Technology
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http://web.hku.hk/~hlt2004/
September 16 - 17, 2004.
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Invited Speakers:
Josef van Genabith and Andy Way
National Centre for Language Technology NCLT,
School of Computing, Dublin City University
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Australasian Language Technology Summer School and Workshop
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ALTW
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The Australasian Language Technology Workshop will be held on Wednesday 8
December as part of Speec Science and Technology 2004 at Macquarie
University (Sydney, Australia). It will provide a forum for the
presentation and discussion of new research in language technology. The
workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN.
Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2004
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004/
ALTSS
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The Australasian Language Technology Summer School will consist of about
8 short courses, targetted at postgraduate students and researchers in
academia and industry. There will be introductory courses on text
technologies, speech technologies, statistical language processing and
data-intensive linguistics. Advanced courses will be offered on a
selection of the following topics: grammar formalisms, parsing,
generation, dialogue systems, machine learning, information retrieval,
information extraction, text classification, and human-computer
interaction. Courses will take place on 4-7 December.
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altss2004/
Introductory Courses
- Speech Processing (David Grayden, The Bionic Ear Institute)
- Speech Annotation with EMU (Steve Cassidy, Macquarie University)
- VoiceXML (Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University)
- Grammar Formalisms (Ash Asudeh, University of Canterbury)
Advanced Courses
- Prosody (Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne - 3 hours)
- Text Classification (Jon Patrick, University of Sydney)
- Maximum Enthropy (James Curran, University of Sydney)
- Information Retrieval (Mark Sanderson, Sheffield University)
- Multiword Expressions (Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne)
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LFG 2004:
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The 9th LFG conference was held in Christchurch, New Zealand on
July 10 - 12. There were 55 attendees.
21 talks were presented, in addition to the workshop on "Coordination and
Agreement" and the poster session.
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/
Proceedings papers are due by October 1, 2004.
Authors should have received an email from the editors, Miriam Butt and
Tracy King, on the proper submission procedure.
WINTER SCHOOL IN LFG AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS:
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A Winter School was held just before LFG04 on the University of Canterbury
campus. There were about 45 enrolled students.
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school/
The local organizers would like to thank all the instructors and speakers
for a very successful event.
Course materials are linked from the main Winter School page and are
available at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school/material/
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LFG 2005:
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The 10th LFG conference will be held in Bergen, Norway.
Web: http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/
Email: lfg05@uib.no
Dates: July 18-20, 2005
Local organizers:
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosˇn, Koenraad de Smedt and Helge L¿drup
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* RECENT LFG OUTPUT *
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New and Forthcoming Textbooks
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Kroeger, Paul. 2004. Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach.
Cambridge University Press.
Catalogue entry: http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521016541
Kroeger, Paul. To appear. Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge
University Press. Scheduled for May 2005.
Book notice:
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521016533
Recent LFG Publications:
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Adams Bodomo
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html
Bodomo, Adams B., Olivia S.-C. Lam and Natalie S.-S. Yu. Forthcoming.
'Double Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese'.
Acta Orientalia.
Bodomo, Asams B. 2004. The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates
in Dagaare. Studia Linguistica. 58 (1): 1-22.
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Helge L¿drup
http://folk.uio.no/helgelo/
L¿drup, H. 2004 Clausal complementation in
Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 27(1): 61-95.
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Dublin City University, School of Computing
http://www.dcu.ie/computing/
Cahill, Aoife, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef van Genabith, and
Andy Way. 2004. 'Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically
Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations'. Proceedings of
the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL-04), July 21-26, pp.320-327, Barcelona, Spain.
O'Donovan, Ruth, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith, and
Andy Way. 2004. 'Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical
Resources from the Penn-II Treebank'. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04), July
21-26, pp.368-375, Barcelona, Spain.
Recent LFG Dissertations:
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Natalie So-Sum Yu. 2004. Verb-Object Constructions in Cantonese and
Mandarin. M. Phil thesis. Departent of Linguistics, the University of
Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Adams Bodomo.
Teaching materials:
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Course materials from the Winter School in LFG and Computational
Linguistics are available at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school/material/
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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 LFG05.
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. For this you
need the account number and the ABA number (this number
identifies the bank). Contact Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com)
for the required information.
Note that there is usually a fee for transferring money this way and
so several people from the same institution/country may wish to
combine their donations into a single transfer.
Please let Tracy Holloway King know once you have made the deposit to
get your receipt.
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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* EDITOR *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (December 2004) to: asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
Most importantly, please send information about:
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
Thank you,
Ash Asudeh
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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 Arnold:
doug@essex.ac.uk
Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin to
Ash Asudeh:
asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
or post them on the LFG list (LFG@listserv.linguistlist.org).
Most importantly, please send Ash information about:
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- 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.