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Fwd: Your message to LFG awaits moderator approval
by Ken Kahn 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hi I did get this notification of moderation 4 days ago. Here's my message again: Vijay's message got me wondering what else GPT-4 can do. https://shareg.pt/VcJBEYK Mary thought the result was at an undergraduate level. Best, -ken ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <lfg-owner(a)listserv.linguistlist.org> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 16:23 Subject: Your message to LFG awaits moderator approval To: <toontalk(a)gmail.com> Your mail to 'LFG' with the subject GPT-4 producing f-structures Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm/lfg/7ecd6420d43b3…

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ParGram bibliography
by Koenraad de Smedt 02 May '23

02 May '23

Dear colleagues, In a not too distant future, the IT-department at Bergen wants to discontinue the ParGram website (https://pargram.w.uib.no <https://pargram.w.uib.no/>); the last updates seem to be from 2020. There seems to be some value in the the extensive bibliography (split on different pages by year). Meanwhile, there is an LFG site at Konstanz, https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/index.html, where another extensive LFG bibliography is available. There is also a brief list of ParGram publications at https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/pargram_urdu/pargram//Pu…. However, the bibliography files on the ParGram site in Bergen contain quite a few LFG-related publications which I cannot find in the lists in Konstanz. If someone would like to get a hold of the ParGram publications and possibly merge them with the lists in Konstanz, the time to act is pretty soon. Another potentially interesting resource is the Feature Table at https://pargram.w.uib.no/documents/feature-table-no-check/. An exported version of this table in semicolon-separated format is attached. Best, Koenraad De Smedt Bergen, Norway

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Fwd: Using GPT4 as an assistant for computational linguists
by Vijay Saraswat 01 May '23

01 May '23

Try 2... > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Vijay Saraswat <vijay(a)saraswat.org> > Subject: Using GPT4 as an assistant for computational linguists > Date: April 24, 2023 at 6:17:08 AM EDT > To: LFG(a)listserv.linguistlist.org, hpsg-l(a)listserv.linguistlist.org, Mary Dalrymple <mary.dalrymple(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>, Ken Kahn <toontalk(a)googlemail.com>, fernando.pereira(a)gmail.com, lamping(a)gmail.com > > I thought this group might find the following interesting. > > For the last several years I have been leading an R&D group in AI (essentially applied NLP) at a major Wall Street Bank. Since 2020, I have been struck by the stunning progress made by Large Language Models (LLMs; GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4, …). Essentially it seems that a lot of the work we were doing in computational linguistics (at least some of us), particularly in terms of applications to real-world question answering problems, has now been swamped by LLM advances. > > I have a separate talk on the kind of highly-specific text analyses GPT-4 can do directly for (financial) professionals with domain-specific text, without having to go through parsing / semantic representation steps. Here I thought it might be illuminating to provide a log of a conversation with GPT-4 about representing meanings of simple sentences in IL. > > As you can see it doesn’t always get things right. But some discussion helps it set things right (in itself, this is another startling capability of GPT-4). Such conversations can lead to the development of an accurate labeled data set, and thence to a fine-tuned end-point which should end up being highly accurate. (GPT-4 is not yet available to be fine-tuned, but GPT-3 is, and I would hope -4 will be, soon…) > > There are tons of things to discuss here, of course, if there is interest. Just putting this out as a conversation starter… > > > Best, > Vijay > > The examples are taken from https://aclanthology.org/E93-1013.pdf and https://aclanthology.org/E95-1005.pdf > > > VS: Parse the following sentence and generate its m meaning in Montague's Intensional Logic. > -- Sentence > Bill kissed Hillary. > -- Meaning formula > > > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Bill kissed Hillary" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we will first parse the sentence into its components: > Subject: Bill > Verb: kissed > Object: Hillary > Montague's Intensional Logic uses lambda calculus to represent meanings. We will use the following variables: > > b for Bill > k for the verb 'kiss' > h for Hillary > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > k(b, h) > > This formula states that the kissing action (k) occurs with Bill (b) as the subject and Hillary (h) as the object. The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as the application of the binary relation 'k' to the individuals 'b' and 'h’. > VS: Good. Here is another one. > -- Sentence > Bill obviously kissed Hillary. > > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Bill obviously kissed Hillary" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we need to consider the adverb "obviously" as a modifier of the verb "kissed". Let's denote the adverb with the letter 'o' and use the previously defined variables: > b for Bill > k for the verb 'kiss' > h for Hillary > o for the adverb 'obviously' > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > o(k)(b, h) > > This formula states that the kissing action (k) occurs with Bill (b) as the subject and Hillary (h) as the object, and that this action is obviously true (o). The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as the application of the binary relation 'k' to the individuals 'b' and 'h', modified by the adverb 'o’. > VS: Hmm.. shouldn't this be o(k(b,h))? > GPT4: Apologies for the confusion. You are correct. The correct representation of the sentence "Bill obviously kissed Hillary" in Montague's Intensional Logic should be: > o(k(b, h)) > > This formula states that the kissing action (k) occurs with Bill (b) as the subject and Hillary (h) as the object, and that this action is obviously true (o). The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as the adverb 'o' modifying the result of applying the binary relation 'k' to the individuals 'b' and 'h’. > VS: Good. Now let's do: > -- Sentence > Hillary let Bill write a letter > -- Meaning formula > > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Hillary let Bill write a letter" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we will first parse the sentence into its components: > Subject: Hillary > Verb: let > Object: Bill > Infinitive verb: write > Object of the infinitive verb: a letter > We will use the following variables: > > h for Hillary > l for the verb 'let' > b for Bill > w for the verb 'write' > a for a letter > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > l(h, λx.w(x, a))(b) > > This formula states that the letting action (l) occurs with Hillary (h) as the subject and a function representing Bill writing a letter (λx.w(x, a)) as the object. Then, the function is applied to the individual Bill (b). > > The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as the application of the ternary relation 'l' to the individuals 'h' and 'b', and the action of writing a letter (w) with 'a' as the object. > VS: Good. Next: > -- Sentence > Bill supported, and Hillary opposed, NAFTA. > > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Bill supported, and Hillary opposed, NAFTA" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we need to parse the sentence into its components and consider the conjunction "and" that connects two separate actions: > Subject 1: Bill > Verb 1: supported > Subject 2: Hillary > Verb 2: opposed > Object: NAFTA > We will use the following variables: > > b for Bill > s for the verb 'support' > h for Hillary > o for the verb 'oppose' > n for NAFTA > ∧ for the conjunction 'and' > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > (s(b, n) ∧ o(h, n)) > > This formula states that Bill (b) supports NAFTA (n), and Hillary (h) opposes NAFTA (n). The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as two separate actions, the support action (s) with Bill (b) as the subject and NAFTA (n) as the object, and the oppose action (o) with Hillary (h) as the subject and NAFTA (n) as the object, connected by the conjunction 'and' (∧). > VS: OK, next: > -- Sentence > Bill supported, and Hillary opposed, two trade bills. > > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Bill supported, and Hillary opposed, two trade bills" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we need to parse the sentence into its components and consider the conjunction "and" that connects two separate actions: > Subject 1: Bill > Verb 1: supported > Subject 2: Hillary > Verb 2: opposed > Quantifier: two > Object: trade bills > We will use the following variables: > > b for Bill > s for the verb 'support' > h for Hillary > o for the verb 'oppose' > tb for trade bills > ∧ for the conjunction 'and' > t for two > Since we are dealing with a quantifier, we will use lambda notation to represent the two trade bills. Let x represent trade bills and y for the second trade bill: > > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > ∃x∃y(tb(x) ∧ tb(y) ∧ t(x, y) ∧ s(b, x) ∧ s(b, y) ∧ o(h, x) ∧ o(h, y)) > > This formula states that there exist two trade bills (x and y) such that Bill (b) supports both (s(b, x) and s(b, y)), and Hillary (h) opposes both (o(h, x) and o(h, y)). The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as two separate actions, the support action (s) with Bill (b) as the subject and the two trade bills (x and y) as the objects, and the oppose action (o) with Hillary (h) as the subject and the two trade bills (x and y) as the objects, connected by the conjunction 'and' (∧). > VS: Next: > -- Sentence > Hillary wanted, found, and supported two candidates. > GPT4: To represent the given sentence "Hillary wanted, found, and supported two candidates" in Montague's Intensional Logic, we need to parse the sentence into its components and consider the conjunctions "and" that connect three separate actions: > Subject: Hillary > Verb 1: wanted > Verb 2: found > Verb 3: supported > Quantifier: two > Object: candidates > We will use the following variables: > > h for Hillary > w for the verb 'want' > f for the verb 'find' > s for the verb 'support' > c for candidates > ∧ for the conjunction 'and' > t for two > Since we are dealing with a quantifier, we will use lambda notation to represent the two candidates. Let x represent the first candidate and y for the second candidate: > > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > ∃x∃y(c(x) ∧ c(y) ∧ t(x, y) ∧ w(h, x) ∧ w(h, y) ∧ f(h, x) ∧ f(h, y) ∧ s(h, x) ∧ s(h, y)) > > This formula states that there exist two candidates (x and y) such that Hillary (h) wanted both (w(h, x) and w(h, y)), found both (f(h, x) and f(h, y)), and supported both (s(h, x) and s(h, y)). The given sentence can be translated into Montague's Intensional Logic as three separate actions, the want action (w), find action (f), and support action (s) with Hillary (h) as the subject and the two candidates (x and y) as the objects, connected by the conjunctions 'and' (∧). > VS: It would seem to me that the meaning should be the conjunction of two propositions, one expressing the wanting, and the second that the finding-and-supporting was successfully accomplished… > GPT4: I apologize for my previous responses, and I understand now what you are looking for. To represent the given sentence "Hillary wanted, found, and supported two candidates" in Montague's Intensional Logic as the conjunction of two propositions, we can do the following: > Subject: Hillary > Intensional verb: wanted > Extensional verb 1: found > Extensional verb 2: supported > Quantifier: two > Object: candidates > We will use the following variables: > > h for Hillary > w for the verb 'want' > f for the verb 'find' > s for the verb 'support' > c for candidates > t for two > ∧ for the conjunction 'and' > Now, we can represent the meaning formula as follows: > > w(h, λx.t(c, λy.(f(h, y) ∧ s(h, y)), x)) ∧ ∃x∃y(c(x) ∧ c(y) ∧ t(x, y) ∧ f(h, x) ∧ f(h, y) ∧ s(h, x) ∧ s(h, y)) > > In this formula, we have two separate propositions joined by a conjunction. The first proposition represents the wanting, with the intensional verb 'want' as the function w(h, λx...), taking Hillary (h) as the subject and a property λx representing the existence of two candidates that Hillary found and supported as its argument. The second proposition represents the successful finding and supporting of two candidates, with the quantifier 'two' applied to the candidates, and for each candidate x and y, the extensional verbs 'found' and 'supported' are applied. > > This representation treats the intensional verb 'wanted' separately from the extensional verbs 'found' and 'supported', expressing the conjunction of two propositions: one for the wanting, and the second for the successful finding and supporting of two candidates. >

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LFG Bulletin, March 2023
by Agnieszka Patejuk 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

March 2023 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: June 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG23 2. Drafts for comments 3. Recent LFG work 4. Online resources 5. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG23 LFG23: The 28th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22-24 July 2023 University of Rochester, USA Conference website: https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/lfg23/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 3.1 PhD/Masters Zymla, Mark-Matthias (2023). 'Tense and Aspect in Multilingual Semantic Construction'. PhD thesis, University of Konstanz. [unpublished; contact: Mark-Matthias.Zymla(a)uni-konstanz.de] 3.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. 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: CLIRAI / CompLingInfoReasAI / Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 12 Mar '23

12 Mar '23

CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previous alias: CompLingInfoReasAI) Guimarães (Portugal) within PAAMS'23, from 12th to 14th July, 2023, HYBRID https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/clirai ================================================ SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which 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 thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive 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 - Theory of computation - Theory 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 - Computational approaches of computational linguistics for 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 languages - 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 == - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language and reasoning - 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 - Logic for information integrations of diagrams with written and / or spoken language == - Formal models of argumentations - 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 - Applications, e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences, etc. == - Computational language processing based on fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline (Maintrack and Special Sessions) 24th March, 2023 Notification of acceptance 3rd May, 2023 Camera-Ready papers 19th May, 2023 Conference Celebration 12th-14th July, 2023 PAPER SUBMISSION https://www.dcai-conference.net/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 CompLingInfoReasAI / 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 LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references: https://www.dcai-conference.net/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 ======

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, March 2023
by Agnieszka Patejuk 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for March 2023. 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 **27th March 2023**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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Cognitive Modelling Spring School
by S.M. Jones 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

For people who are interested in language and the brain, the Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modelling offers an opportunity to learn about computational models of brain activity and think through how they can be applied to your research. It is not specific to linguistics, but the modelling tools and methods that are taught here have been used to relate LFG representations of language structure to models of how that structure may be built incrementally in the brain. If you have questions or want to know more, I’d be happy to answer them: s.m.jones(a)rug.nl ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen ————————————————————————— ____________________ *REMINDER: the early registration deadline of the Sixth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling ends on February 25* – ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs – Date: *27-31 March 2023* Location: *Groningen, the Netherlands* Fee: *€ 305 (late fee after February 26 will be € 355)* More information and registration: *www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool <http://www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool>* ____________________ Dear colleagues and students, The sixth Spring School on Cognitive Modeling in Groningen (27-31 March 2023) is open for registration until 19 March. There is an early registration discount until 25 February. The Spring School will cover three different modeling paradigms: ACT-R, Nengo, and PRIMs (see below for a brief explanation of each). Past years have shown that students get most out of the spring school if they really emerge themselves into a modeling paradigm. We therefore planned more time for actually working on the hands-on exercises this year. We recommend you choose one topic for which you will attend both the lectures as well as do the exercises (tutorials). In addition, you can select a second paradigm, for which you attend the lectures only. To give students a broader picture of cognitive modeling, there will be three additional guest lectures throughout the week. These lectures each give an introduction to yet another modeling paradigm: accumulator models (Leendert van Maanen), error-driven learning models (Jacolien van Rij), and dynamical systems (Herbert Jäger). All students are encouraged to attend those lectures. To round of the program, there will be a poster session, where students present themselves and their research, as well as a city tour, and our (in)famous spring school dinner. *Registration closes on March 19. The early registration deadline ends February 25.* Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who might be interested in the Spring School. We are looking forward to welcoming you (again) in Groningen, The Spring School team springschool(a)rug.nl ______________ ACT-R Teachers: Jelmer Borst, Stephen Jones, & Katja Mehlhorn (University of Groningen) Website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school curriculum. We will also cover the connection between ACT-R and fMRI. Nengo Teacher: Terry Stewart and Andreas Stöckel (University of Waterloo) Website: http://www.nengo.ca Nengo is a toolkit for converting high-level cognitive theories into low-level spiking neuron implementations. In this way, aspects of model performance such as response accuracy and reaction times emerge as a consequence of neural parameters such as the neurotransmitter time constants. It has been used to model adaptive motor control, visual attention, serial list memory, reinforcement learning, Tower of Hanoi, and fluid intelligence. Participants will learn to construct these kinds of models, starting with generic tasks like representing values and positions, and ending with full production-like systems. There will also be special emphasis on extracting various forms of data out of a model, such that it can be compared to experimental data. PRIMs Teacher: Niels Taatgen (University of Groningen) Website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/prims/index.html How do people handle and prioritize multiple tasks? How can we learn something in the context of one task, and partially benefit from it in another task? The goal of PRIMs is to cross the artificial boundary that most cognitive architectures have imposed on themselves by studying single tasks. It has mechanisms to model transfer of cognitive skills, and the competition between multiple goals. In the tutorial we will look at how PRIMs can model phenomena of cognitive transfer and cognitive training, and how multiple goals compete for priority in models of distraction.

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LFG23: Final Call for Papers
by Agnieszka Patejuk 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Final Call for Papers [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG23: The 28th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 21 July - 25 July 2023 University of Rochester Conference website: https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/lfg23/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg23 'at' rochester.edu Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2023/Conference Please note that we are using a new submission system. You will have to register beforehand. Invited speakers: TBA Workshop: A workshop on "Revisiting Lexical Integrity" is planned for 25 July. More information on the topic and abstract submission can be found at https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/lfg23/workshop/ Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG23 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. LFG23 is sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester (http://www.sas.rochester.edu/cls/) 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 Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2023 Conference: 21 July - 25 July 2023 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 10pt 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 University of Konstanz/CSLI Publications. (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. The ParGram Project Meeting will be held in the morning and there will be a social activity in the afternoon. 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 Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfg23 'at' rochester.edu) Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester 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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The 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Winckel, Elodie 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

/Dear LFG community,/ /We, the organizers of the //*30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar*, //would be grateful if you could circulate the call for papers within your community and encourage members to submit their work. / _Submission Deadline: 24-Feb-2023_ The 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held in a hybrid format on 07 July - 08 July 2023 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the venue of the LSA Linguistic Institute 2023. 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. **Conference Format** The HPSG 2023 conference will be a two-day main conference (07 July - 08 July), which will be followed by a one-day (09 July) workshop on ellipsis (Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis), which will be announced separately. **Invited speakers** Emily Bender Jean-Pierre König **Submissions** We invite anonymous submissions to the main HPSG Conference: Papers 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. Please specify whether you intend to present your paper in person, online, or haven’t decided yet. All abstracts should be submitted in via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2023 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers are expected to give a 30-minute presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes are reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the Conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/archive. **Important Dates** Abstract submission deadline: 24 February 2023 (anywhere on earth) Notifications of acceptance: 17 April 2023 Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2023 **Venue** The HPSG 2023 Conference will take place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the venue of the LSA Linguistic Institute. **Local Organizing Committee Chairs** Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) **Program Committee Chair** Elodie Winckel (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) **Contact information** For general questions, please contact the Program Committee Chair Elodie Winckel (hpsg2023(a)easychair.org). For questions about the logistics of the conference, please contact the local organizers (Gabriela Bîlbîie and Fabiola Henri) at hpsg2023(a)gmail.com. -- Elodie Winckel Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Research Training Group “Dimensions of constructional space” Schillerstr. 25, 91054 Erlangen (Germany) Room 00.015

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Last CfP and Deadline Extension: International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10) in Mannheim
by Beata Trawinski 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Dear Colleagues, I would like to again draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), which will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. At the same time, I would like to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to *January 31, 2023*. All details about the conference and the submission procedure can be found below or at the conference website: https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Contributions on cross-linguistic issues from all theoretical frameworks are welcome! Best regards, Beata Trawinski (IDS Mannheim) ***************************************************************** *10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10)* **************************************************************** Date: 18-Jul-2023 - 21-Jul-2023 Location: Mannheim, Germany Contact Person: Beata Trawinski Meeting Email: iclc10(a)easychair.org Conference Web Site: https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Extended Deadline for abstract submission: 31.01.2023 ************************************************ *Final Call for Papers & Deadline Extension* ************************************************ The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC brings together researchers from different linguistic subfields (and neighboring disciplines) to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community, to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. New impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data. At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics. We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following: • Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, including lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as matters such as register and socio-cultural context • The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research • The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research • The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics • The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as foreign language teaching and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics • Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches) • Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (comparability, incommensurability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals) • Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys) • The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and for cross-linguistic generalizations and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. Confirmed keynote speakers are: • Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany) • Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands) • Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium) • Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany) • Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) The conference will include a poster session. The conference language will be English. Following the conference, all participants will be offered the possibility to submit their contribution for publication in a volume of selected conference papers. ************************************************ *Submission of Abstracts* ************************************************ We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) or poster presentations. Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. One person may submit only one (oral or poster) paper as the first author. The number of co-authored submissions is not limited. However, presenting more than one paper (oral or poster) at the conference by a single person should be avoided. All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system through the following submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 Submission Procedure: 1. Login at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 2. Enter your EasyChair username and password and log in. 3. If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on "create an account" and fill out the form. 4. Click "New Submission" at the top left of the page. 5. By following the instructions, fill out the form. 6. Select topics relevant to your submission from the list of Topic Domains and from the list of Languages. The topics will be used for assigning submissions to reviewers, for compiling the conference program and for conference analytics. Ideally, you select at least one topic from each list. 7. Specify your preferred presentation type: Oral or Poster. Both presentation types are considered to be of equal value. 8. Upload your abstract via "Files", and then submit. 9. After submitting your abstract successfully, you will receive an e-mail from EasyChair that you have successfully submitted your abstract. ************************************************ *Important Dates* ************************************************ ~16.01.2023: Deadline for abstract submission~ 31.01.2023 Extended deadline for abstract submission 31.03.2023: Notification of acceptance 14.04.2023: Confirmation of participation 18.07.2023: Arrival, Registration, Get-together 19.-21.07.2023: Conference Conference Web Site https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Organizing Committee: Beata Trawinski (Chair) Marc Kupietz Kristel Proost Jörg Zinken

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