XLE February 2014

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Spring ParGram Meeting 2014
by Sebastian Sulger 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Hi, At this year's ParGram meeting, we decided we should have 2 meetings in 2014 (spring and fall). Regarding the spring meeting, Ron Kaplan has volunteered to host it at Nuance in California. To find a suitable date, I created a Doodle poll which you can find here: http://doodle.com/niwz4hgptcn3rpsr Please participate in the poll so that we can find a date that suits most of us. By the way: This will be a special occasion since we will be celebrating 20 years of ParGram! Cheers, Jani -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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ParGram Sentences Reminder
by Sebastian Sulger 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi, We would like to remind all of you to consider parsing the new set of ParGram sentences. Even if you cannot come to the Spring ParGram meeting, it would still be great if you could continue to support ParGram and ParGramBank by submitting your parses. The submission procedure is easy: - translate the sentences to your language; - gloss them and put them in a LaTeX file (use the attached Debrecen handout as a guideline; use the Leipzig Glossing Rules); - parse them; - (opt. disambiguate them); - save the c- and f-structures to eps files; - send the eps files as well as the LaTeX file to me. The plan is to add the sentences to ParGramBank (accessible on INESS: http://iness.uib.no/iness/main-page) after the meeting, i.e. after we have ensured parallelism. Miriam also provided the following notes on the sentences: ---------------------------------- "Also note that the sentences cover three things: 1) Negation -- this was decided on at the last meeting in Debrecen and Gyuri has kindly provided the sentences. 2) Possession --- this is something Jani is interested in and he provided the sentences. 3) The first four sentences of "The Gruffalo". A must read for anybody above 2 years of age. For categories 1 and 2 -- let us know if you have trouble translating them into your language. One of the issues with ParGramBank is that we need to have sentences that are comparable and there are some tough issues about what it means to be comparable (also discussed at the last meeting in Debrecen). We presumably cannot always ensure full comparability, but we can try to make sure that we aren't introducing silly extras that make things non-parallel and that could have been avoided." ---------------------------------- I'm sure that ParGramBank has the potential to grow and provide enough potential for a lot of further research into cross-linguistic treebanking (see, for example, the email by Lori Levin the other day). Best, Jani -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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semantic roles for LFG grammar engineering
by Adam Przepiorkowski 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Dear All, [Apologies for cross-posting.] In the context of enriching the Polish LFG grammar with semantic representation, we are looking for a set of semantic roles (Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, etc.) that could be used to mark arguments (and possibly adjuncts) of verbs and other predicates. This set should be exhaustive in the sense that it should be possible to assign – more or less deterministically – a semantic role to any argument (and possibly adjunct) of any predicate. For this reason the standard – in LFG textbooks – sets of some 7 semantic roles do not seem sufficient. Instead, we are looking at larger repertoires proposed in VerbNet, in FrameNet and in John W. Sowa's work on Knowledge Representation. We don't have any strong views about any particular set of semantic roles, as long as it is exhaustive and applicable to real texts (as opposed to being merely theoretically interesting). Has anybody in the LFG community faced a similar task? If so, what set of semantic roles would you recommend? At the moment, we are wavering between VerbNet and Sowa's system, both being more manageable than numerous roles offered in FrameNet, but we are open to other solutions. Many thanks, best regards, Adam P. -- Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ ___________ Journal of Language Modelling http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group http://nkjp.pl/ _________________________ National Corpus of Polish

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