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:
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:
Any ParGram members interested in attending should email
Emily, for the DELPH-IN Standing Committee
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