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30 October SE-LFG hybrid (online/in-person) meeting
by Joey L 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Hi all, A reminder that the South of England LFG (SE-LFG) meetings are restarting this week, Saturday October 30, 1:00-4:30 PM (Oxford time). SE-LFG is a student-oriented meeting for presenting and discussing various topics from an LFG perspective. The meeting will now be hybrid, online and in person. * The in-person meeting will be held at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford. Attendees are encouraged to wear a mask. * Online access is via this Zoom link: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96239889775?pwd=cVFReHAwL3Bzc1hyRU44SkZlWlQ3QT… Presenters are Chit Fung Lam (Lawrence), Agnieszka Patejuk, Roxanne Taylor and Joey Lovestrand. See the website for abstracts and more details: https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/south-of-england-lfg-meetings/s… Joey

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SLE Workshop on ellipsis (ECBAE) Bucharest august 2022
by Anne Abeillé 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2022 Final Call for Papers We are very pleased to announce that we are planning to submit a proposal for the fourth edition of the Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) workshop to the international conference Societas Linguistica Europaea SLE 2022, which will be held at the University of Bucharest between 24 August and 27 August 2022. The main purpose of the ECBAE workshops is to bring together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena (VP ellipsis, sluicing, stripping, gapping, RNR, etc.) in various languages, with special emphasis on solid empirical data, specifically through experimentation and corpus investigations. Contributions will be welcome concerning (i) the specific experimental methodologies being used in psycholinguistics, and how they can be improved to give more reliable and interpretable results; and (ii) the way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions, and to improve the results of psycholinguistic experiments, specifically by increasing the naturalness of the materials by providing new hypotheses. This iteration of ECBAE also especially welcomes submissions addressing issues surrounding ellipsis identity. We are particularly interested in contributions tackling one or more of the following questions: I. How can we define identity conditions between ellided materials and antecendent materials from the discourse? E.g.: – Must identity conditions include syntactic descriptions (phrase markers / LFs / Structured Meanings)? – Alternatively, can identity conditions be stated over purely semantic or pragmatic objects, with no associated „syntactic forms“ (e.g., syntactically unstructured propositions, common ground inventory, etc.)? – Are hybrid conditions needed that reference both of the above? II. What precisely are the relations that have to hold between elliptical utterances and their antecedents in the discourse? E.g.: – What role (if any) do discourse-structuring mechanisms, such as coherence / anaphoric accessibility relations, QUDs and/or contrastivity, play in licensing ellipsis? – Do we need different identity conditions and/or discourse relations for different types of ellipsis (e.g., clausal versus predicate ellipsis)? – Also, can antecedents for ellipsis be accommodated (i.e., have no explicit mention the preceding discourse), and, if so, what are the restrictions on accommodation? If you are interested in submitting a paper to the ECBAE 2022, please send a provisional abstract (max. 300 words) to ecbae4(a)gmail.com <mailto:ecbae4@gmail.com> before 11 November 2021, and we will prepare the workshop proposal based on your preliminary submissions, and submit it before 20 November 2021. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be by 15 December 2021. After our workshop proposal has been accepted, all preliminary workshop participants will be invited to submit their full abstracts in Easychair before 15 January 2022. We are looking forward to receiving your preliminary contribution to our next ECBAE workshop. Best, Gabriela Bîlbîie, James Griffiths, Volker Struckmeier

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The Grande Grammaire du français is out
by Anne Abeillé 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Dear colleagues We have the pleasure to announce the publication of the Grande Grammaire du français >>> 2 volumes, 2600 pages >>> Actes Sud/imprimerie nationale Editions (89 euros in France) >>> Online version on the website grandegrammairedufrançais.com <http://xn--grandegrammairedufranais-gec.com/> >>> Gathering 59 linguists, the GGF analyses all usages of spoken and written contemporary French, after 1950, in France and worldwide, in a unified framewok, with 30 000 examples. More informations on the websites grandegrammairedufrançais.com <http://xn--grandegrammairedufranais-gec.com/> www.llf.cnrs.fr/ggf <http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/ggf> Half day presentation (hybrid) November 1:30-7:30 pm (Paris time) http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/node/6900 <http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/node/6900> please register http://drehu.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/ggf/inscription.php <http://drehu.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/ggf/inscription.php> Spread the word! Anne Abeillé and Danièle Godard CNRS and Université de Paris http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/Gens/Abeille grandegrammairedufrançais.com

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LFG Bulletin, September/October 2021
by Agnieszka Patejuk 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

September/October 2021 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: December 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG Handbook: 8 chapters published online! 2. SE-LFG on October 30 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) 3. Drafts for comments 4. Recent LFG work 5. Online resources 6. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG Handbook: 8 chapters published online! The following 8 chapters of the Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar have been published online (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312): Agreement Complex predicates Noun phrases in LFG LFG and African languages LFG and Scandinavian languages LFG and Slavic languages LFG and Cognitive and Constructional theories LFG and Simpler Syntax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. SE-LFG on October 30 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) >From Joey Lovestrand: "South of England LFG (SE-LFG) meetings will be restarting on October 30th with a hybrid (in-person/online) workshop on October 30, hosted at the University of Oxford, Oriental Institute from 1-4:30 PM. Presenters: Chit Fung Lam (Lawrence), Agnieszka Patejuk, Roxanne Taylor, Miriam Butt Check the website for (forthcoming) details: https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/ Link to join via Zoom: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96239889775?pwd=cVFReHAwL3Bzc1hyRU44SkZlWlQ3QT… Contact Joey Lovestrand with any questions (jl119(a)soas.ac.uk)" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 4.1 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. 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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CfP: NLPinAI 2022, Online Streaming 3-5 February, 2022
by Roussanka Loukanova 08 Oct '21

08 Oct '21

CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2022 Online Streaming 4-6 February, 2022 http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2022 Special Session within the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2022 http://www.icaart.org ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them: - Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 26, 2021 Authors Notification: December 14, 2021 Camera Ready and Registration: December 22, 2021 PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in LaTeX and Word styles) are available on the ICAART pages. See, AUTHOR'S KIT at the end of the website: http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2022 Paper Templates: http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx Guidelines: Please read the Guidelines of NLPinAI 2022 at ICAART, and respect the double-blind review method.: http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the button SUBMIT PAPER on the pages of NLPinAI 2022 at ICAART 2022. PUBLICATIONS After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library We expect a post-conference, post-proceedings Special Issue with extended publications based on selected papers presented at NLPinAI 2022, ICAART 2022. A book of selected works based on NLPinAI 2020 at ICAART 2020 is published: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence — NLPinAI 2020 Book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) ISBN 978-3-030-63786-6 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-030-63787-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63787-3 CHAIR: Roussanka Loukanova CONTACT: ICAART Secretariat <icaart.secretariat(a)insticc.org> -------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: LACompLing2021 Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021, MALIN, Montpellier
by Roussanka Loukanova 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021) 13 - 17 December 2021, online https://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing2021-web/ LACompLing2021 is part of the week Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN) 2021, Université de Montpellier (UM), Montpellier, France, 13 - 17 December 2021, Online DESCRIPTION of LACompLing Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950s, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The symposium assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. SCOPE of LACompLing The symposium focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2021 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Computational approaches of computational linguistics for domain specific areas - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Computational theories and systems of reasoning in natural language - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and / or spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language LACompLing2021 is especially interested in topics on the interconnections between Logic, Language, and Argumentation, e.g.: - Formal languages of reasoning and argumentation - Algorithms related to natural language of argumentation - theories, implementations, applications - Formal models of argumentations - Logic of preferences - Beliefs, attitudes, persuasions - theories and applications IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 30 October 2021 Notifications: 6 November 2021 Final submissions: TBA ?? LACompLing2021: 13 - 17 December 2021 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome submissions of abstracts of presentations of original work. The intended papers should not be submitted concurrently to another conference or conference event and should not have been published or submitted for publication consideration elsewhere. NOTE: We will not accept submissions that are on work submitted to another event at MALIN 2021, concurrently during the submission to LACompLing2021. - Submission of abstracts of presentations: limited to 1 page, including the title, other heading material, about half of a page text, and references - Authors can submit more than one abstract. Invited speakers can submit invited and contributed abstracts. - The camera-ready submissions may require all the necessary typesetting sources, which are not in the standard LaTeX distribution Typesetting Instructions For LaTeX, authors are required to use Springer LNCS package. Styles and templates can be downloaded from Springer, for LaTeX (recommended!) and Microsoft Word: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… For bibliography citations, please use BibTeX with: \bibliographystyle{spmpsci} SUBMISSIONS The submission Web page for LACompLing2021 is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2021 PUBLICATIONS We will organize a post-conference, special volume after the symposium LACompLing2021, for publication of extended papers based on accepted abstracts with presentations at LACompLing2021. The submissions to the special volume have to be original, unpublished, and not concurrently submitted elsewhere. They will go through thorough peer reviews. ORGANIZATION of LACompLing2021 CHAIRS of LACompLing2021 Roussanka Loukanova, IMI, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Reinhard Muskens, ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PROGRAM CHAIRS of LACompLing2021 Roussanka Loukanova, IMI, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Richard Moot, LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France Christian Retoré, Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France ORGANISATION of LACompLing2021 at Stockholm University Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (local organiser, publication chair) Axel Ljungsröm, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (local organiser, publication associate) Roussanka Loukanova, IMI, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (chair) Contact LACompLing 2021 <lacompling2021(a)easychair.org> --------------------------------

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, September 2021
by Agnieszka Patejuk 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for September 2021. 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 **24th September 2021**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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restarting ParGram?
by Agnieszka Patejuk 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

Hi, I am sending this message to all potentially relevant lists (ParGram, XLE, LFG, ParSem) so as to maximise the chance that it will reach people who are interested in this topic. If you know someone who might be interested but is not subscribed to these lists, please consider letting them know. The question is: who would be interested in restarting ParGram meetings? I am not sure what would be the best way to organise this discussion, so I am suggesting the following: • if you think your answer might be of interest to many people (for instance, it might spark a discussion), please consider replying to the list(s) • if not, please reply only to me – I will later go through the responses and post a summary to the relevant lists. I hope that later we can discuss this topic in more detail with people who have expressed interest. All best, Agnieszka

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HPSG-2021 registration & information
by Nurit Melnik 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

*The 28th International Conference on HPSG* will be held on July 28—July 29, 2021, as an online event. It will be followed by a one-day *workshopon negation* on July 30, 2021. The presentations are prerecorded and available on the conference website. The discussion period will be online. All interactions will take place on Zoom and on our conference’s Discord server. Please watch all the videos beforehand and prepare your questions! As a social hub, we set up a Discord server for this year’s conference. Our Discord server will be a place for social gatherings, our poster session and announcements for the conference. The conference program can be consulted at https://blog.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/hpsg21/program/. The talks and slides are listed at https://blog.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/hpsg21/abstracts-videos/. As several technical issues were reported on Safari, please make sure to access our website with Firefox or Chrome. The conference will be free of charge but you have to register to view password-protected content and get into protected areas for interaction. Please register with our registration form at https://blog.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/hpsg21/registration/. The main information regarding our conference can be found on our website and in our (virtual) goody bag. All registered participants will receive the goody bag as a file. If you have any questions regarding the conference, don’t hesitate to contact us at <hpsg2021(a)uni-frankfurt.de>. We are looking forward to seeing you all in cyberspace! Best, the local organizers

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Videos series: A quick overview of LFG
by Joey L 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Hi all, I’ve recently put together a series of short (3-5 minutes) videos introducing some basic concepts in LFG for people who have studied linguistics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBpKrZiIqZ97ZhbbwSLV6nDZXVdsPbCy Feel free to share the playlist with anyone who might be interested. I’m also happy to receive any feedback as I plan to revise the videos. Joey

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