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new XLE release (March 17, 2017)
by Sebastian Sulger 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Hi, There is a new release of XLE available. The new versions of XLE can be downloaded from: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/redmine/projects/xle Please go to the "DMSF" section to download XLE packages for different versions. You need to have an account on the Redmine site (= be an XLE licensee) to access the files. NB: linux2.3-64 = any 64 bit Linux that uses GNU libc 2.3 intelmac64 = 64 bit MacOS X 10.8 or later I have not compiled packages for PowerPC chips, SunOS or 32 bit Linux. I cannot provide support for the former two; please let me know if you need to run XLE on a 32 bit Linux. To run this version of XLE, you should put the following in your .login file (the exact commands will depend on the type of shell you use); replace $xledir with the name of the XLE directory. setenv XLEPATH $xledir setenv PATH ${XLEPATH}/bin:$PATH setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${XLEPATH}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ${XLEPATH}/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH setenv TCLLIBPATH ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tcl setenv TCL_LIBRARY ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tcl setenv TKLIBPATH ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tk setenv TK_LIBRARY ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tk Below is the ChangeLog for this version of XLE. PARGRAM release 3/17/2017 * Fixes an initialization warning. * Makes some ints be long to make the compiler happy. Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Lory (né Sulger) FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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ParGram Spring 2017 meeting update
by Sebastian Sulger 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hi, There is now a website for the Spring ParGram meeting, with some updated information as well as a tentative program. You can find the website on the ParGram blog: http://pargram.b.uib.no/meetings/spring-2017-meeting-in-konstanz/ The program is work in progress. If you have any questions, or if you are planning to attend the meeting but are not yet on the participants list, OR if you would like to give a talk but are not part of the program, please let me know as soon as possible. We will try to give people the opportunity to attend online, either via Skype or via a stream; more information on that soon. I'll keep the lists posted. Best, Jani -- Sebastian Lory (né Sulger) FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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Announcement: Spring ParGram meeting
by Sebastian Sulger 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Hi, Based on your feedback (thanks for that), we have decided on a date for the next ParGram meeting, which will take place online and on-site at the University of Konstanz from *April 10th - April 12th, 2017*. This is directly (with a weekend in between) after EACL 2017, so as to make it more convenient for people from outside Europe to attend. We will set up Skype etc. so that you can participate over the internet in case you can't come to Konstanz. Concerning structure comparison, my suggestion would be to look at the ParTMA treebank collection, which has been created on the INESS site (clarino.uib.no/iness). The collection deals with different tense/aspect/mood configurations. We are interested in these because we are currently working on a project on multilingual annotation of tense and aspect. Please contact the INESS team at Bergen if you find you do not have access to the ParTMA treebank collection. At this point in time, I would ask you to do the following: - Send me an email saying whether/how you can attend the meeting (one of: on-site, online, or cannot attend); - Indicate in the email whether you'd like to give a talk at the meeting (not necessarily on tense/aspect, of course); - Indicate whether you would still like to contribute structures to ParTMA (I will then contact you with more information). Based on the above, we will work on a tentative schedule. Let me know if you have any questions. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Konstanz in April! Cheers, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Sebastian (aka Jani) on behalf of the Konstanz group -- Sebastian Lory (né Sulger) FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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ParGram meeting next spring
by Sebastian Sulger 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi, We are planning to have a ParGram meeting next spring. This will be a 2-3 day meeting some time in March or April. The idea currently is to hold the meeting here in Konstanz, but to also have it online so that people can give presentations and join the discussion via Skype, if they can't come to Konstanz. To move forward with the planning, let me know what dates are NOT possible from your side in March through April. We will then try to find a suitable date. Thanks & Best, Sebastian (aka Jani) -- Sebastian Lory (né Sulger) FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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Question about setting up regression test/benchmarking with xle
by Antske Fokkens 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi all, Sorry to bother you with a probably trivial question, but I haven't managed to figure this out following the xle documentation (probably missing something). I'd like to set up regression test and/or small benchmark testsuites. I've made a file with test sentences which I can evaluate using run-syn-testsuite or parse-testfile. I'd now like to run these and make xle register the differences so that I can monitor progress/regression in the grammar's performance. Basically, I'd like to run the testsuite on new data, be notified of changes in the f-structure and decide whether these are an improvement (update the standard to measure again) or a regression (retain old standard). Can anyone tell me how to do this? I've tried to play around with the -outputPrefix and -goldPrefix options, but it is not clear to me how to use them exactly. I've also tried to look into benchmarking, but wasn't able to figure out how to apply this to creating a benchmark for syntactic parsing (i.e. parse sentences and select the right f-structure, store this for evaluation). Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Antske

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Tense/Aspect Testsuite & A Request
by Sebastian Sulger 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Dear fellow ParGrammers, In our current project[1], we are investigating Tense/Aspect systems with the ultimate goal of coming up with a cross-linguistically applicable annotation scheme for these systems (morphosyntax and semantics). To that end, we'd like to collect data from as many ParGram grammars as possible in the form of translations and XLE parses. I am attaching a file with 45 sentences that aim at testing a couple of Tense/Aspect configurations. We don't want to prime you too much, so I won't say what these configurations are exactly. You will see that the file is formatted as an XLE testsuite; words in parentheses constitute supplementary information which you don't have to translate, but which nevertheless may be important to fully understand the desired semantics. Commented lines include contexts for the sentences; some sentences make use of the same contexts, as indicated in the file. If you would like to participate and help us in gathering data, you can do the following: 1. Answer to this email by saying "Yes, I'm in!" 2. Translate the sentences into the language you are working on. Use the most natural way of saying a sentence. If there are several equally natural ways, indicate all of them. 3. Parse all the translations, disambiguate them and save them as prolog files (these are very short sentences, so that we do not expect them to be major challenges to your grammars). 4. Send us your testsuite with the translations as well as your prolog files with the structures. We are in dire need of your support for this, so please consider submitting translations/structures to us! If you have any further questions at all, please let us know. Cheers, Sebastian & the PARTMA team [1] http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/partma/ -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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ParGram meeting, joint ParGram/DELPH-IN meeting
by Sebastian Sulger 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi, We are planning to organize a ParGram meeting in 2016. It is not yet clear where the meeting will be taking place; we are trying to co-locate the meeting with other fixed-date venues to attract as many people as possible, so that the place depends on the date. I have created a Doodle that lists possible dates. It would be great if you could indicate your preferences in terms of "Yes" (I think I can come on this date), "(Yes)" (I may be able to come on this date, but it's not ideal), or "No" (I can definitely not come on this day). The co-located events are indicated on the Doodle. Also, there is interest in trying to join forces with DELPH-IN. I attach a DELPH-IN email address here, hoping that this invitation will be forwarded to the appropriate lists. I think it would be really good to have a joint ParGram/DELPH-IN meeting soon, to be able to learn from one another and start thinking about possible future research directions. The idea to apply for a joint EACL 2017 workshop on grammar development/treebanking has also come up. We are currently planning for a 4-day meeting, but we could extend this to 5 days if there is need. Also, if any of you have other suggestions for possible dates, please let me know so that I can modify the Doodle accordingly. Best wishes, Sebastian "Jani" Sulger -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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new XLE release (October 27, 2015)
by Sebastian Sulger 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hi, There is a new release of XLE available. The new versions of XLE can be downloaded from: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/redmine/projects/xle Please go to the "Files" section to download XLE packages for different versions. You need to have an account on the Redmine site (= be an XLE licensee) to access the files. NB: linux2.3-64 = any 64 bit Linux that uses GNU libc 2.3 intelmac64 = 64 bit MacOS X 10.8 or later I have not compiled packages for PowerPC chips, SunOS or 32 bit Linux. I cannot provide support for the former two; please let me know if you need to run XLE on a 32 bit Linux. To run this version of XLE, you should put the following in your .login file (the exact commands will depend on the type of shell you use); replace $xledir with the name of the XLE directory. setenv XLEPATH $xledir setenv PATH ${XLEPATH}/bin:$PATH setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${XLEPATH}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ${XLEPATH}/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH setenv TCLLIBPATH ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tcl setenv TCL_LIBRARY ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tcl setenv TKLIBPATH ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tk setenv TK_LIBRARY ${XLEPATH}/tcl/scripts/tk Below is the ChangeLog for this version of XLE. PARGRAM release 10/27/2015 * Resets the behavior of XLE with respect to the default morph config file: if there is no morph config file in the grammar directory, read in the default morph config file distributed as part of XLE. * Fixes a bug related to the maximum number of arguments a predicate can select. This was hard-coded to 5 before, redefined to 10 now. Reported by Agnieszka Patejuk. * Fixes a bug related to lengths of paths pointing to lexicon files. Maximum length of paths redefined to 1000; was 200 before. Reported by Agnieszka Patejuk. * Fixes bugs related to the Polish grammar reported by Katarzyna Krasnowska. Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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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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request to distribute
by Annie Zaenen 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Call for Papers (Special Issue) Grammar Engineering: Precision Grammars Precision grammars are encodings of linguistic knowledge in a representation that is both interpretable by humans and and usable in parsers and sentence generators, which aim to handle rare constructions as well as the more common ones. LiLT solicits papers for a special issue on precision grammars, with a particular interest in the following topics: * Mixed or hybrid models of statistical and precision grammars * Gradient grammaticality in precision grammars * The use of machine learning and treebanks in creating precision grammars * Parsing evaluation metrics that focus on evaluating the coverage of rare phenomena * Applications that show the importance/advantages of precision grammars; * Handling of cross linguistic generalizations and typological information in multi-lingual projects * Precision grammar projects on less-studied languages The deadline for submissions is: October 31, 2015 Submissions should be sent to azaenen(a)stanford.edu <mailto:azaenen@stanford.edu> There is no special format required for submissions but accepted papers need to be submitted in LATEX. The editorial board for this issue is consists of Doug Arnold (University of Essex), Emily Bender (University of Washington), Philippe Blache (Aix Marseille Université), Gerlof Bouma (University of Gothenburg) , Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen), Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz), Eric De La Clergerie (INRIA), Dan Flickinger (Stanford University), Jan Hajič (Charles University of Prague), Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ron Kaplan (Nuance), Tracy Holloway King (Ebay), Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University), Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen), Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University), Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University), Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo), Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences), Laura Rimell (Cambridge University), Victoria Rosén (University of Bergen), Louisa Sadler (University of Essex), Mark Steedman (Edinburgh University), Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen), Annie Zaenen (Stanford University).

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