Joan Bresnan received the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016 on August 10 in Berlin.
A write-up of her acceptance speech, which discusses LFG and is titled Linguistics: The Garden and the Bush, can be found on her website Pre-publications page:
http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/jbLTA.pdf
The Life Time Achievement Award of ACL (ACL LTA) is conferred to recognize the work of a researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions to the field of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (CL/NLP). The award was instituted in 2002 and has been given every year since.
Candidates were discussed with the following factors in mind: background (education, research interest etc.), current position/affiliation, research area, specific contributions to NLP (qualitative and quantitative), past recognition, service to community. After deliberating over a period of about 3 months, the committee chooses Prof. Joan Bresnan of Stanford University as the ACL Life Time Achievement Award Winner of 2016. Through Lexical Functional Grammar and such other works on syntax and formal description of language, Prof. Bresnan has contributed immensely to computational linguistics.
Read more at: https://aclweb.org/portal/content/joan-bresnan-receives-2016-acl-lifetime-achievement-award
From Tibor Laczkó:
"I am pleased to inform you that the new Chair of the Executive Committee of ILFGA is Anna Kibort. Congratulations Anna, and thank you very much for your being willing to serve our community in this capacity for a year.
I am also pleased to inform you that Ida Toivonen has agreed to serve on the Program Committee for another two-year term. Many thanks, Ida, for the previous term and very many thanks for the new term you have undertaken."
'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.
From Avery Andrews:
"v3 of Sets, Heads and Spreading, at AveryAndrews.net/Papers in the Recent Drafts section.
Main change is a hopefully better treatment of argument-sharing a.k.a. resource deficit in coordinate structures and similar."
Please submit basic article/project information and (a) a URL if the item is available online or else (b) your contact email.
Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >
LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/
LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home
More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
Facebook page:
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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.