March 2022 - LFG-list - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

Open Rank Position at Konstanz
by Miriam Butt 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi All, I am still looking for people at the PostDoc or Doc level to help out with project work and teaching. Attached is the job ad I put on Linguist List — Deadline was for today, but I’m extending it a little to mid April. If you know of anybody or are interested yourself, let me know! Cheers, Miriam ——— Title: Open-rank position available in Computational Linguistics (TVL-13 salary scale) The Computational Linguistics group at the University of Konstanz has open positions. At the postdoctoral level, we have need of teaching as as well as research. Teaching and research could be combined into one postdoctoral position (50% research, 50% teaching) for two years. At the doctoral level we can alternatively offer a 3-year 65% doctoral research position. Our current research projects encompass work on framing, argumentation and the automatic detection of non-canonical questions. We are looking for people interested in combining symbolic with machine learning approaches. We are also particularly looking for researchers with knowledge of Spanish for a project on "Mobilising Inequalities". The project is part of the Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/). Overall our work involves the identification, analysis and automatic extraction of linguistic cues for NLP applications that support research into how arguments and issues are framed. The non-canonical questions work is part of the FOR 2111 "Questions at the Interfaces" (https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/questionsInterfaces/), argumentation as part of the SPP RATIO (http://ratio.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/projects-phase-2/cuepaq/). Our staff works closely with researchers from Political Science and Visual Analytics, providing interesting and fruitful scope for interdisciplinary and collaborative work. On the teaching side, our popular MA "Speech and Language Processing" requires teaching in the following areas: Machine-Language Processing (overview course) Finite-State Morphology, Corpus Linguistics with Python, Deep Learning with Python, Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Grammar Development (LFG), Computational Semantics. Pre-set syllabi and material exist for all of these courses. A 100% teaching position comes with 8 hours of teaching (equivalent to about 3-4 courses a semester). Positions are available as of April 1, 2022. Requirements: Postdoctoral applicants should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) and applicants at the doctoral level should have an MA degree. Both should be in the areas of computational linguistics or linguistics. The applicants should be well versed in linguistic analysis and possess programming skills. Knowledge of Python is particularly relevant. The University of Konstanz encourages disabled persons to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact +497531/88–4016 und 88-2834). The University of Konstanz is an equal opportunity employer that tries to increase the number of women in research and teaching. The University of Konstanz has been certified as a family-friendly institution by the Hertie Foundation and is committed to further the compatibility of work and family life. The University of Konstanz offers a „Dual Career Couples Program“. Information can be obtained from: http://www.familie.uni-konstanz.de/dual-career/ . Applicants should send a cover letter, a full CV and one sample publication or paper to: miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de **************************************************************** Miriam Butt Department of Linguistics University of Konstanz Fach 184 Tel: +49 7531 88 5109 78457 Konstanz Fax: +49 7531 88 4865 Germany +49 7531 88 5115 miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/butt/ He now made a special effort to Indianize his diction with the colonials: they had to realize he had both an axe and an accent to grind. Shashi Tharoor, p. 240 "The Great Indian Novel" ****************************************************************

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LFG Bulletin, March 2022
by Agnieszka Patejuk 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

March 2022 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: June 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG22 2. LFG Handbook: 4 new chapters published online! 3. SE-LFG on 21 May 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) 4. Drafts for comments 5. Recent LFG work 6. Online resources 7. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG22 LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12-14 July 2022 University of Groningen, Netherlands Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ Invited speakers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz, Germany) and Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo, Norway) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. LFG Handbook: 4 new chapters published online! The following 4 new chapters of the Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar have been published online (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312): Core Concepts of LFG Information Structure LFG and Australian languages LFG Treebanks There have been updates/corrections to the following two chapters: LFG and Finno-Ugric languages LFG and Romance languages ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. SE-LFG on 21 May 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) The 32nd South of England LFG Meeting will take place on 21 May as a hybrid event, both online via Zoom and in person at the University of Oxford. SE-LFG is a student-oriented meeting for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective. All are welcome to attend. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/south-of-england-lfg-meetings/s… For more information contact Joey Lovestrand: jl119(a)soas.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 5.1 Publications Przepiórkowski, Adam (2022). 'Coordination of Unlike Grammatical Cases (and Unlike Categories)'. Forthcoming in Language. [ https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006492] 5.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Online resources LFG website: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html More about LFG: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Boilerplate The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar
by Nurit Melnik 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

*Call for Papers: Special Issue on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar* Following a successful workshop on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar <https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/construction-grammars/scientific-p…> at the 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11) we invite both workshop presenters and other researchers to submit their recent, unpublished work on the topic to a special issue of the Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM>. *MOTIVATION* Construction Grammar is based on a holistic view of language. Its main analytical concepts are: a surface-oriented description; the simultaneous presence of form-, meaning- and, sometimes, usage-properties of utterances; non-locality or extended locality of linguistic units; the organization of linguistic knowledge in a hierarchical network (such as a type hierarchy); the rejection of the strict distinction between lexicon and syntax and the assumption of a syntax–lexicon continuum. Analyses within the framework of Construction Grammar range from highly formalized and computationally implemented ones to approaches which reject formalization. The formal vs. non-formal debate extends well beyond the domain of Construction Grammar, and is often accompanied by other dichotomies: functionalist vs. formalist, usage based vs. competence based, holistic vs. analytic, theory-driven vs. data-driven, nativism vs. constructivism, or the acceptance vs. rejection of a core-periphery distinction. The dichotomies that figure in the formal vs. non-formal debate are to a large degree orthogonal to the question of whether a formal account is possible, desirable, and maybe even insightful. The goal of this special issue is to discuss the potentials and limitations of construction-based formal analyses and the issues which formal approaches raise. The Journal of Language Modelling is a free (for readers and authors alike) open-access peer-reviewed journal. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, usually including at least one member of the Editorial Board. *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Research questions relevant to the volume topics include but are not limited to: - Which defining properties of a construction grammar can be found in other frameworks and which boundaries are encoded there? (such as the simultaneous presence of form and meaning, non-locality or extended locality of constructions, hierarchical network of constructions, surface orientation) - Which constructional phenomena defy a rigid formalization? - What criteria are there to decide what phenomena count as part of grammar and what is dependent on general cognitive principles? - Formal models of language aim at making predictions, i.e. at identifying impossible/ungrammatical units in addition to describing well-formed ones. Can/should this be made compatible with a description of language that takes usage data, linguistic creativity, and perceived oddness of unusual/non-entrenched patterns into account? *SUBMISSIONS* The submissions should be journal papers, not proceedings papers, totalling 25-50 pages, excluding references. Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission for the journal. Make sure to select the special issue when asked to provide the article type. More information, including formatting instructions for authors can be found on the journal's webpage at: https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/about/submissions. *IMPORTANT DATES* Call for papers issued: 28/3/2022 Submissions due: 30/9/2022 Author notification: Early 2023 *GUEST EDITORS* Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) Manfred Sailer (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, March 2022
by Agnieszka Patejuk 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for March 2022. Please take this opportunity to keep the rest of the LFG community up to date with news, details of recent publications and drafts for comments, and anything else that may be of interest. News of recent dissertations and theses is, as always, very welcome. Please send items to: <LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com> on or before **28th March 2022**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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Call for Papers - LFG22 Workshop: Formal Grammars and Cognition
by S.M. Jones 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

LFG22 Workshop - 15 July 2022 - Formal Grammars and Cognition In association with the International Lexical Functional Grammar Association Conference LFG22, 12-14 July 2022 Submissions are invited for the LFG22 Workshop on Formal Grammar and Cognition, which aims to promote discussion and collaboration between researchers working on formal theories of grammar and those in the fields of language and cognition. We welcome submissions from experimental, theoretical, or cognitive modelling research that explores the relationship between grammar and cognition, and/or the contribution of formal grammar frameworks to describing and accounting for cognitive phenomena. Areas of interest for phenomena or theoretical treatments include, syntax, semantics, information structure, discourse representation, or any other area of language processing that is amenable to a formal account. The workshop is associated with the Lexical Functional Grammar conference, being held in Groningen from 12-14 July 2022, but submissions are welcome from within any formal framework. A hybrid participation options will be available for participants who are unable to travel, but we hope that presenters will be able to attend in person. Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 13 May 2022 Workshop: 15 July 2022 (in association with the LFG22 Conference from 12-14 July 2022) The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Full details for submissions are available via the online submission system: https://easychair.org/cfp/lfg22workshop Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22 ————————————— Dr Stephen Jones FSE Fellow Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————

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Call for papers Linguistic Evidence Paris 6-8 October 2022
by Anne Abeillé 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Linguistic Evidence 6-8 octobre 2022 Amphi Buffon, Université de Paris, 75013 Paris, France Linguistic Evidence has as its specialism the relationship between elicited data types such as experimentation, field work, and questionnaires and linguistic theory building in the field of syntax and semantics. The aim of this biannual conference series is to provide an occasion where linguists who wish to combine attention to empirical adequacy with theoretical informedness can meet and learn from each other. The central aim is to promote the integration of experimental and theory-driven approaches to the study of language. Research across disciplinary boundaries in which theoretical and/or experimental linguists work together with colleagues in adjacent fields is always welcome, as are meta-studies which address issues around the collection and processing of elicited data. The University of Tübingen has organized Linguistic Evidence since 2004. Linguistic Evidence 2022 will be organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle <http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/> (Université de Paris – CNRS) and the Laboratoire d’Excellence « Empirical Foundations of Linguistics » <https://en.labex-efl.fr/>. Keynote speakers Evelina Fedorenko (MIT) Sam Featherstone (U Tübingen) Invited speakers for special session on unbounded dependencies : Ted Gibson (MIT) Maayan Keshev (Amherst) Rui Chaves (SUNY at Buffalo) Susanne Winkler (U Tuebingen) Important dates Submissions can be uploaded from April 1st 2022 Deadline for Submissions: May 31st 2022 Notification of acceptance: Beginning of July 2022 https://le-2022.sciencesconf.org/ <https://le-2022.sciencesconf.org/>

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