XLE August 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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representation of MWEs in LFG?
by Agnieszka Patejuk 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi, I would like to know if there are any works on representing multiword expressions in LFG, taking their internal structure into account? Example: United States of America One option would be to treat "United States of America" as one element whose PRED is 'United States of America' and which corresponds to one leaf at c-structure. The other option would be to say that "United States of America" has internal structure: States as PRED, United as ADJUNCT of States, of America also probably as an ADJUNCT of states. The problem is then how to represent the PRED for the entire unit (United States of America) – PRED-MWE? Maybe the third option (a variant of the second one above) would be to set the PRED of the head of the MWE to the PRED corresponding to the entire unit (United States of America) and then ensure, using appropriate constraints, that the remaining parts of the MWE are present? (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)=c united (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)= of (^ ADJUNCT $ OBJ)= America Are there other approaches? I would be grateful for any suggestions. Best, Agnieszka

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Call for TLT paper contribution and other items
by Sebastian Sulger 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, First of all: I hope all of you are having a great summer! There are a couple of items I'd like to draw your attention to: 1) Towards the end of April, Miriam has sent around the meeting notes of the past Spring ParGram meeting at Nuance. Grammar writers, please take notice and adjust your grammars if necessary to ensure parallelism. 2) We decided that we should go ahead and bank some more structures to add to ParGramBank. We think that the "possession" sentences from last meeting's testsuite were particularly parallel throughout. I attach a "possession testsuite" to this email, in which I updated some of the lexical items. The numbering continues from the last testsuite (sentences2012.txt). Those of you who sent in structures for the Nuance meeting, you are encouraged to parse these sentences and send the Prolog output to Paul Meurer, who can then add them to ParGramBank. Again, please make sure you take a look at the meeting notes before you send them in. 3) There is a workshop deadline coming up which might be interesting given our treebanking efforts: "Treebanks & Linguistic Theories" is going to take place in Tübingen/Germany in December. http://tlt13.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/ They take submissions until September 22nd. I think we could do a follow-up to the ACL paper, where we explain a bit more what ParGramBank is about and what the main issues are. In particular, issues related to cross-linguistic testsuite creation could be discussed. Please let me know if you are interested in co-authoring a paper for TLT. Best, Jani -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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