-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Invitation to the 2015 DELPH-IN Summit Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 20:54:45 -0700 From: Emily M. Bender ebender@uw.edu To: Miriam Butt miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de, standing@delph-in.net standing@delph-in.net
Dear Miriam,
Would you forward the message below to the ParGram list for me?
Many thanks, Emily
Dear ParGram Community,
This August, we will hold our 11th annual summit in the Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELPH-IN). I am writing on behalf of the DELPH-IN Standing Committee to invite members of the ParGram community to join us in this meeting.
Despite interesting formal and linguistic differences, we believe there is much common ground between ParGram and DELPH-IN, including pedigree, goals, mode of operation, and challenges ahead of us. We feel it would be fruitful to exchange views on questions like these: (a) recruitment and training of new grammarians; (b) long-term maintenance of complex existing grammars; (c) relating to more theoretical work or ‘divergent’ interpretations of LFG and HPSG; (d) standardizing (semantic) interface representations to parsing and generation, to support downstream tasks like entailment or reasoning; (e) connecting to third-party (semantic) resources like VerbNet or BabelNet; or (f) demonstrating the utility of deeper linguistic analysis in practical applications.
Our DELPH-IN summits usually have three ‘plenary’ days (August 3–5 this year), followed by two days with parallel, smaller-group activities; we will be putting together the program over the next few months, but to give you an idea of previous meetings, maybe see:
http://moin.delph-in.net/TomarSchedule http://moin.delph-in.net/SummitTop
We hope that this will be the start of increased interaction between our communities. We would welcome ParGram researchers to attend, provide their perspective on issues we are discussing, and get a chance to see what the interests, research-in-progress, and open questions are in the DELPH-IN universe.
Organizationally, our meeting this year will be in Singapore, co-located with and just before the HPSG conference (and right after ACL in Beijing). For more organizational background, please see:
http://moin.delph-in.net/SingaporeTop
Any ParGram members interested in attending should email summit@delph-in.net mailto:summit@delph-in.net to make their interest known.
Emily, for the DELPH-IN Standing Committee