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REMINDER: LFG f-structure comparison meeting online Tue 21 Nov at 9am UTC (9am UK/Ireland)
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Dear all, This is a reminder of the LFG f-structure comparison meeting that will be held online on Tue 21 Nov 2023 9am - 10am UTC. >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you there. - Mary, Lawrence and Elaine Zoom Link: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/93770084827?pwd=OEpZampzanZMS2VXMDNkcEJyTU9WZz09 Meeting ID: 937 7008 4827 Passcode: 111795 Please refer to the message below for the details. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the following sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them -- it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these): The driver starts the tractor. The tractor is red. What did the farmer see? Did the farmer sell his tractor? Push the button. All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Polish and Mandarin. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary, Lawrence and Elaine

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Reminder: F-structure comparison meeting (ParGram) (29 Feb 2024, 9 am-11 am, UTC-0)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Dear all, This is a reminder that our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Thursday 29 Feb 2024 (9 am-11 am) (UTC-0)*. The discussion will focus on the following sentences: 6. Don't push the button. 7. The farmer gave his neighbour an old tractor. 8. The farmer cut the tree down. Anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). >From beginners to experts, all are welcome! Similar to the previous meetings, all participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures parsed by English, Norwegian, Polish, Irish, Mandarin, and Welsh grammars. In advance of the meeting, participants will deposit their f-structures for the sentences there. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. In the ParGram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send an email to one of us. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 29 Feb 2024. Zoom Link: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/93770084827?pwd=OEpZampzanZMS2VXMDNkcEJyTU9WZz09 Meeting ID: 937 7008 4827 Passcode: 111795 - Mary Dalrymple, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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JLM is looking for copy editors
by Adam Przepiórkowski 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

Dear All, We are looking for copy editors for the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM; http://jlm.pipan.waw.pl/). JLM has been a diamond open access periodical since before this term was coined; it is independent of publishing houses, it is community-driven, and it is free for all – readers and authors alike. We, the editors, invest our time in this enterprise and we have always relied on similarly voluntary help from the reviewers and other people involved in the production of the journal. Of these “other people”, copy editors are undoubtedly most important and most skilled: a good JLM copy editor should not only be a native speaker of English (or perhaps a near-native graduate of English Philology) with a good command of the scientific style, but should also know some basics of LaTeX, XeLaTeX and/or Overleaf, and – preferably – have interest in theoretical or computational linguistics. So far, JLM copy editors have been doing an excellent job; to cite one of the JLM authors, one that published many papers in journals run by major publishing houses: “I never got such a good copy editing in my whole scientific life...”. Being independent means that we are on a very tight budget, and in the past we have mainly relied on purely voluntary help of copy editors. However, thanks to the support of the publisher of JLM – the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences – we can currently offer some renumeration, in the form of 80 PLN (€18) per 1000 words of copy-edited text, which amounts to about 1000 PLN (over €200) for a JLM paper of average length. If you are a PhD student (PhD graduate, ambitious Masters student…) in Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or a related field, satisfying the above copy editor profile, and you would like to become a JLM copy editor, please send us (jlm(a)nlp.ipipan.waw.pl) an email detailing how you satisfy the above requirements. If you are a professor with graduate students potentially satisfying this profile, please consider encouraging them to help us – it is in the best interest of the community to keep JLM independent and free for all. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief)

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LFG24 Abstract Deadline Extension
by S.M. Jones 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, Due to popular demand, the LFG24 deadline for abstract submission is extended to 19 February 2024, 23:59 UTC-12. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2024/Conference Best wishes, Stephen Jones and Tina Bögel ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————————————————

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CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previously: CompLingInfoReasAI) at 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) 2024 University of Salamanca (Spain) 26th-28th June, 2024 https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions/clirai ==== SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to the phenomena of partiality, underspecification, perspectives of agents, and context dependency. These phenomena are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of language, thought, reasoning, and other related processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications: - Theorem Provers and Assistants - Model Checkers - Theories of Computation - Theories of Information - Computational Methods of Inferences in Natural Language - Computational Theories and Systems of Reasoning in Natural Language - Transfer of reasoning in natural language to theorem provers, or vice versa - Transfer of reasoning between natural language, theorem provers, model checkers, and various computational assistants - Translations between natural language of mathematics and formal languages of proof and verification systems - Controlled Languages of Mathematics == - Computational approaches of Computational Linguistics, e.g., in domain specific areas - Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Type Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Computational Grammar - Computational Syntax - Computational Semantics of Natural Language - Computational Syntax-Semantics Interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual Processing - Large-Scale Grammars of Natural Languages - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics, natural language processing, argumentation - Computational Models of Partiality, Underspecification, and Context-Dependency - Models of Situations, Contexts, and Agents, for Applications to Computational Linguistics - Information about Space and Time in Language Models and Processing == - Interdisciplinary Methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written, spoken, and other modes of language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams with language == - Computational Models of Argumentations - Large Language Models (LLM) - Data Science in Language Processing - Machine Learning of Language and Reasoning == - Interactive Computation, Reasoning, Argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog and other Interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Computational processing of information and languages in various specific areas and domains, e.g., in forensics, medical sciences, healthcare, jurisdiction, law, etc. - Applications, e.g., to governing, education, business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences, etc. == - Computational processing language based on natural fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline 15th March, 2024 Notification of acceptance 26th April, 2024 Camera-Ready papers 17th May, 2024 Conference 26th-28th June, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION at EasyChair of DCAI https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished, sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CLIRAI. SUBMITTING PAPERS and PAPER FORMAT DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Template of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page: https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. CHAIRS Roussanka Loukanova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova <rloukanova(a)gmail.com> ====

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Computational Linguistic Position, Konstanz
by Miriam Butt 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear all, we have a 50% position available at the University of Konstanz, LFG knowledge needed and preferred. https://linguistlist.org/issues/35-423/ Deadline March 1! Best, Miriam **************************************************************** 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/ “Here Miss Marple contributed a singularly eloquent pause.” Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (p. 65) ****************************************************************

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Two PhD Positions
by Sascha Bargmann 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear all, we would like to draw your attention to two open PhD positions within our project “Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German”, which is part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)” at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. The description of the two positions can be found on Linguist List: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35-442 As the application deadline is already in a week from now, we would be very grateful if you could directly forward this to candidates who you think might be interested in these positions. All the best from Frankfurt, Gert Webelhuth, Markus Bader, and Sascha Bargmann -- Dr. Sascha Bargmann Abteilung Linguistik Institut für England- und Amerikastudien Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1 60629 Frankfurt a.M. bargmann(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 11(2) (special issue on constructional approaches in formal grammar)
by Adam Przepiórkowski 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 11(2) – a special issue on constructional approaches in formal grammar – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free open-access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/30. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: “Constructional approaches in formal grammar” Nurit Melnik, Manfred Sailer 189–196 Articles: “Lexical Functional Grammar as a Construction Grammar” Jamie Y. Findlay 197–266 “The Dutch anaphoric possessive construction” Frank Van Eynde 267–296 “Copy raising reconsidered” Nurit Melnik 297–341 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: Steven Abney, University of Michigan, USA Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester, USA Chris Biemann, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY Igor Boguslavsky, Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN; Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RUSSIA António Branco, University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL David Chiang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM Dan Cristea, University of Iași, ROMANIA Jan Daciuk, Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Anette Frank, Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, FRANCE Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, University of Tartu, ESTONIA Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, FINLAND Jonas Kuhn, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, ITALY Ján Mačutek, Comenius University in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA Igor Mel’čuk, University of Montreal, CANADA Glyn Morrill, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN Stefan Müller, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM Petya Osenova, Sofia University, BULGARIA David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Technology, POLAND Christopher Potts, Stanford University, USA Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM Agata Savary, Université François Rabelais Tours, FRANCE Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University, USA Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, CANADA Shravan Vasishth, Universität Potsdam, GERMANY Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, POLAND Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged, HUNGARY Yorick Wilks†, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, ISRAEL Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC ====================================================================== Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ ___________ Journal of Language Modelling http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group http://nkjp.pl/ _________________________ National Corpus of Polish

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Moscow LFG Meeting, April 6 2024
by Oleg Belyaev 04 Feb '24

04 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, Since there are now quite a few people, mainly students, in Moscow working in LFG and needing feedback on their work(-in-progress), we decided to host a local meeting inspired by the annual South of England LFG Meetings (SE-LFG). The Moscow LFG meeting, or M- LFG for short, will be held on *April 6 (Saturday) *at the Institute of Linguistics RAS. We welcome preliminary and unfinished analyses and provide ample time for discussion. Since the idea is to have an informal meeting for linguists based in Moscow, only on-site talks will be allowed, but we would be delighted to have members of the LFG community based in other countries listen to our mini-conference and engage in discussions. For this reason, all talks will be broadcast online and *the working language of the meeting will be English*. We invite everyone to attend! All information can be found on the Institute of Linguistics website: https://iling-ran.ru/ web/en/conferences/240406_mlfg[1]. You can also reach us at moscow.lfg.meeting(a)gmail.com[2] . On behalf of the organizing committee, Oleg Belyaev -------- [1] https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/240406_mlfg [2] moscow.lfg.meeting(a)gmail.com

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