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f-structure workshop: Thursday 3 April
by Mary Dalrymple 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, Many thanks for doing the poll! In case you have not subscribed to the LFG/ParGram list, below is the message we have sent: Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Thursday 3 April 2025 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC+0). 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: 30. The boy bathed in the river. 31. The teacher read to himself aloud. 32. The brothers bought the tractor for each other. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. 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 discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >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! --------------------------------------- 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 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 English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. 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 email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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CfP: CLIRAI'25 Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session on Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previous alias: CompLingInfoReasAI) https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions/clirai at: The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2025 University of Lille, France 25th-27th June, 2025 https://www.dcai-conference.net ================================================ 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), and 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, semantics, reasoning, and information processing - Type Theories for applications to language, semantics, reasoning, and information processing - 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 and 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 of language based on natural fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES See: https://www.dcai-conference.net Submission deadline 21st March, 2025 Notification of acceptance 25th April, 2025 Camera-Ready papers 9th May, 2025 Conference 25th-27th June, 2025 SUBMISSION The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished, sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI / CLIRAI. Format All papers must be formatted according to the LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. See Sects. Format, Submission, etc., at: https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings, under the following condition, for each paper: At least one of the authors is required to register at DCAI symposium and attend the Special Session CLIRAI, where they will present their paper. This will allow for its inclusion in 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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CALL * Minor Sentence Types – their form and its impact on the grammar* Deadline 30th March
by Jakob Maché 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

CALL * Minor Sentence Types – their form and its impact on the grammar* This workshop follows the annual HPSG-colloquium but warmly welcomes contributions from any theoretical framework including constraint-based theories such as GPSG, HPSG, LFG, CG, CxG and derivational approaches such as Minimalism. Submissions related to the application of theoretical lin- guistics in NLP, as relevant to the workshop’s theme, are also encouraged. The workshop aims to provide a forum for proponents of diverse theoretical approaches who are open to learning from one another. 4th September 2025 (preceded by the 32nd International HPSG colloquium on 2nd–3rd September) Venue: Centro Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa Invited speakers: Jonathan Ginzburg (Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Université de Paris) Contact/local organizer: Jakob Maché jakob.mache(a)letras.ulisboa.pt <mailto:jakob.mache@letras.ulisboa.pt> Workshop website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/#callWorkshop Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=hpsg2025 • Deadline for abstracts: 30th March 2025 • Notification of acceptance: 30th April 2025 • Conference proceedings submission: 15th October 2025 –– Jakob Maché Centro de linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Departamento de Estudos Germanistícos Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa Tel: +351 217 920 000 Fax: +351 217 920 063 http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/deg-o-departamento/deg-docentes/2806--dep-…

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, March 2025
by Agnieszka Patejuk 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for March 2025. 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 March 2025**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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LFG25: Deadline Extension to February 19th
by Tina Bögel 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Call for Papers: the deadline for LFG25 has been extended to *19 February*. Join us for 30 years of LFG, with invited speakers Joan Bresnan and Stefan Müller, and an interesting workshop on "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism"! The updated call for papers is below: LFG25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22 July - 24 July 2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Abstract submission deadline: 19 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference (Please make sure to create an account early on) Conference website: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-… Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu Invited speakers: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) and Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Core conference: 22-24 July 2025 Pre-conference activities: 21 July 2025 Workshop: 25 July 2025 Associated Workshop: "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism", organized by Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, and Daniel Siddiqi Conference mode: In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional circumstances. LFG25 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2025 Conference: 22 July - 24 July 2025 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 11pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities on 21 July. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Stephen Jones, University of Groningen Local conference organizers (Email: LFG25 'at' upf.edu) Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

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F-structure comparison meeting (27 Feb 2025; 17:00-19:00, UTC+0)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on *Thursday 27 Feb* *2025 *from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC+0). 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: 28. The woman bought the tractor for her husband. 29. The lovers danced until dawn. 30. The boy bathed in the river. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. 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 discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >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! --------------------------------------- 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 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 English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. 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 email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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LFG’25 - Final call for papers
by S.M. Jones 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

[apologies for cross-posting] LFG'25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22 July - 24 July 2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference (Please make sure to create an account early on) Conference website: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-… Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu Invited speakers: TBA Core conference: 22-24 July 2025 Pre-conference activities: 21 July 2025 Workshop: 25 July 2025 Associated Workshop: "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism", organized by Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, and Daniel Siddiqi Conference mode: In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional circumstances. LFG25 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2025 Conference: 22 July - 24 July 2025 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 11pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/archive and http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities on 21 July. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Stephen Jones, University of Groningen Local conference organizers (Email: LFG25 'at' upf.edu) Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ ————————————————————————— 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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LFG f-structure workshop meeting Fri 17 Jan 2025 4pm - 6pm (UTC +0)
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Dear colleagues, We wish all of you a very Happy New Year! Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Friday 17 January from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (UTC+0). 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: 26. The farmer let her son buy the tractor. 27. The farmer bought his son a tractor. 28. The woman bought the tractor for her husband. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. 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 discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >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! --------------------------------------- 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 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 English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. 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 email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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LFG Bulletin, December 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

December 2024 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: March 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG24 Proceedings available! 2. Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute 3. Annie Zaenen awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz 4. Drafts for comments 5. Recent LFG work 6. Online resources 7. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG24 Proceedings available! The Proceedings of the 2024 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference have been published: https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/current Table of contents: Kusaal interrogatives: discourse functionand focus distinction (Hasiyatu Abubakari, Adams Bodomo) Unagreement and how morphology sees syntax (Alex Alsina) Fusional morphology, metasyncretism, and secondary exponence: A morphemic, realizational approach to Latin declension (Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myler, Daniel Siddiqi, Lisa Sullivan) The story of 'er' (Ash Asudeh, Daniel Siddiqi) Language redundancy and acoustic salience: an account in LFG (Tina Bögel, Mila Freiseis, Romi Hill, Daniel Wambach, Tianyi Zhao) Iranian perception predicates revisited: Evidence from Hazaragi (Miriam Butt, Saira Bano) Alternative questions in Urdu: from the speech signal to semantics (Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel, Mark-Matthias Zymla, Benazir Mumtaz) Mutation in Welsh: Syntactic mutation without empty categories (Frances Dowle) The syntax-prosody interface in LFG: Revisiting Korean question focus (Stephen Jones, Yoolim Kim, Cong Zhang) Coordination of unlikes in Turkish (Berke Şenşekerci, Adam Przepiórkowski) An OT-LFG account of the syntax of the Determiner Phrase in Kafire (Songfolo Lacina Silué) In defense of a COMP-less approach to Hungarian finite clauses (Péter Szűcs) Demonstrative TO in Polish – an LrFG analysis (Sebastian Zawada) Ambiguity management in computational Glue semantics (Mark-Matthias Zymla) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute Steve Wechsler will be offering a course on Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, Oregon, from July 8 to August 8, 2025. The course description can be found here: https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/program/search/detail_session.php?id=13… If you have questions or suggestions about the course, or more generally about evolutionary approaches to the study of grammar, you can contact Steve at wechsler(a)austin.utexas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Annie Zaenen awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/conferences/zaenen24/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: HPSG 2025
by shuichi_yatabe＠yahoo.co.jp 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

* { font-size: 13px; font-family: 'MS Pゴシック', sans-serif;}p, ul, ol, blockquote { margin: 0;}a { color: #0064c8; text-decoration: none;}a:hover { color: #0057af; text-decoration: underline;}a:active { color: #004c98;} Full Title: The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Short Title: HPSG 2025 Date: 02-September-2025 - 03-September-2025 Location: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Contact Person: Jakob Maché Meeting Email: hpsg2025(a)easychair.org Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax Abstract Submission Deadline: 15-March-2025 Meeting Description: HPSG is a well-developed, precisely formalized theory of grammar whose architecture is based on the notion of constraint satisfaction. Linguistic objects are modeled as feature structures organized via a system of types and constraint inheritance, drawing key insights from research in object-oriented paradigms. The HPSG community values explicit, large-scale grammar development and explores psycholinguistic models, as well as the development of efficient computational systems for processing natural languages using HPSG grammars. For more information about HPSG: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/hpsg/ http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/hpsg/ The HPSG 2025 conference will be a two-day main conference (2 September - 3 September), followed by a one-day (4 September) workshop, which will be announced separately. First Call for Papers: Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. All abstracts should be submitted by 15 March, 2025, via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=hpsg2025 Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2025 Conference: 2 September - 3 September 2025 (followed by the workshop on 4 September) Invited speakers: TBA Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2025 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings are going to be an indexed publication; the contributions will undergo a separate round of reviews. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ --- Shuichi Yatabe Department of Language and Information Sciences University of Tokyo

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