Dear Colleagues,
Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on *Thursday, 16
October 2025, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM UTC+0 (5 PM to 7 PM in the UK, 6 PM
to 8 PM in Central Europe, 9 AM to 11 AM in California*).
The meeting will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss
any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation
to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are
developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your
grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In
the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue
the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the
following sentences:
42. There are great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts.
43. They are proud of their daughter.
44. My tractor is faster than your sports car.
The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available
on the INESS page (see below) for this meeting series. Even if your grammar
cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are
welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on
your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are
also welcome to attend the second half to participate in the discussion of
these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them.
Best,
Mary, Lawrence, Elaine
*Zoom Meeting*
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>From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome!
We look forward to seeing you online soon.
- Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha
Please refer to the message below for further details about
the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you!
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As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui
Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison
sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (
https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are 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/).
The first half of these meetings will consist of a discussion of general
issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and
analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and
issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the
second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for
a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using
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 current sentences (we may not have
time for a discussion of all of them). You are welcome to attend the
second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the
translational equivalent of these sentences.
In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting,
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 Irish,
Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Welsh, etc. 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.
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 are looking forward to discussing your f-structures!
- Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha
