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REMINDER: Extension of ParGramBank
by Sebastian Sulger 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

Hi everyone, this email is a reminder for those grammar projects that take part in ParGramBank. We had decided we should extend the treebank *by June 30th* to include all 50 of last year's test sentences (I attach them here for your convenience). Extending the treebank by the end of June will enable us to discuss issues/exchange ideas concerning the treebank (e.g., wrt. alignment) at this year's ParGram meeting in Debrecen. It would be great if as many of you as possible could participate in making this treebank a success! If your grammar project is not a part of ParGramBank as of yet, please send me an email to find out how to contribute in the future. Best, Jani (from the Urdu grammar team at Konstanz) -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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Fwd: HMGE13 (ESSLLI workshop)
by Sebastian Sulger 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi, Please see the message below and the attached call for papers. Best wishes, Jani Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com --- Weitergeleitete Mail --- Von: Miriam Butt <miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de> Datum: 26. März 2013 15:23:57 Betreff: Fwd: HMGE13 (ESSLLI workshop) An: Sebastian Sulger <Sebastian.Sulger(a)uni-konstanz.de>, Annette Hautli <annette.hautli(a)uni-konstanz.de>, Tina Boegel <tina.boegel(a)uni-konstanz.de> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: HMGE13 (ESSLLI workshop) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:16:49 +0100 From: HMGE13 <hmge13(a)easychair.org> To: Miriam Butt <miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de> Dear Miriam, A few months ago, you accepted to serve as a PC member of the ESSLLI workshop on High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering (HMGE 2013). Thank you for your help. The deadline for submissions was March, 10. Since we received very few submissions, we decided to extend this deadline to April, 2. We still did not receive enough submissions for the workshop to take place. We thus scheduled a second (final) deadline extension, which is April, 28. That would be very helpful if you could send an email to your colleagues, who are working on grammar engineering or related matters. Thank you again for your help. With best regards, Yannick Parmentier PS: please find attached an updated call for papers.

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Paper on Parallel Treebanking - Call for Contribution
by Sebastian Sulger 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Dear ParGram Community, we are preparing an ACL paper on parallel treebanking at the moment, incorporating insights from the ParGram project. The long paper deadline for ACL2013 is February 20th. The main focus of the treebank would be on its typological diversity and depth of linguistic representation. As of now, we have received c- and f-structures produced by ParGram grammars for 8 languages. The essential argumentation for the paper would be as follows: - The treebank is yet quite small, but includes many languages. - Its representations are produced in an automatic fashion by grammars. - One can rely on parallelism in analyses and features/values, since ParGram has (th|f)ought about these a lot for >10 years. - The representations are deep. - The multitude of languages/depth of representation makes the treebank attractive for typologists and syntacticians/morphologists. Following is a short excerpt from the introduction: "An obvious application for parallel treebanking is machine translation, where treebank size is a deciding factor for or against choosing a particular treebank. When conducting in-depth linguistic studies of typological features, other factors (such as number of included languages, number of covered phenomena, depth of linguistic analysis) become more important. The treebanking effort reported on in this paper supports work of the latter mentality. We have created a parallel treebank which is yet quite small, but includes a multitude of eight typologically quite diverse languages as well as different constructions." Of course, one would then try to pick out interesting linguistic issues in the representation, or try to look at how different phenomena are handled across the grammars. If anyone of you is interested in contributing to the paper (be it by writing the paper itself, or by sending more structures for their language), please contact us. Also, if anyone has an opinion about the above argumentation, please feel free to share it with us. So far, best wishes to all of you, Jani (from the Urdu ParGram team in Konstanz) -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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publishing an XLE grammar?
by Adam Przepiorkowski 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Dear ParGrammarians, We are planning to publish the current version of the Polish XLE grammar on an open licence, and we're looking for other XLE grammars published this way, to learn about best practices. Is it a problem that the grammar contains the PARGRAM feature declaration? Please advise. All best, 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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Stochastic disambiguation with XLE?
by Katarzyna Krasnowska 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Dear users of XLE, I would like to use the probabilistic parsing functionality of the XLE parser, but have trouble getting it to run. I would be very grateful if someone who has trained a property weights file for XLE and then used it for statistical disambiguation of parses could explain how to do it properly. Regards, Katarzyna Krasnowska PhD student Polish Academy of Sciences

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ParGram Parallel Treebank
by Sebastian Sulger 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Dear ParGrammers, At the last ParGram meeting, we discussed possible ways of consolidating our accumulated pargram knowledge and making it more widely available. One idea was to begin creating a parallel treebank based on the f-structure comparison exercise we do routinely at ParGram. For the Bali meeting, we had circulated examples of constructions (intransitive, transitive, passives, relative clauses, questions, ... - see attached file sentences_2012.txt) We managed to do the first 20 or so of these and would like to use these as a basis for the parallel treebank. It would be great if as many of you as possible could participate! We had decided on an October 31st deadline for submitting the first 16 sentences to the repository, but would now extend this deadline to November 30th. To facilitate the development of this resource, we have created a Subversion repository here at Konstanz for storing c- and f-structures as well as sentence glosses. A readme file with detailed instructions on how to proceed with uploading your structures to the repository is also attached to this email. You can check out the repository like this: svn checkout svn+ssh://pargram@cald.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/Users/pargram/bali-meeting-structures/repos The password is 'pargramrocks'. If you need help with Subversion (http://subversion.apache.org/), please let me know. Cheers, Jani & the Konstanz team -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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ParGram material available
by Sebastian Sulger 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

APOOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Dear All, since the Bergen BSCW workspace for storing ParGram files has been closed, we have been working on an alternative solution at Konstanz. Anja Leiderer, one of our students, has now implemented a website using PHP for you to browse ParGram related files (meeting discussions, presentations, etc). The website is here: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/pargram_urdu/pargram/index.php To access the directory, you need to have a username and a password. Those of you who wish to have access can send email to Anja and me with their choice of a username/password combination, and we will give you access: anja.leiderer(a)hotmail.com sebastian.sulger(a)uni-konstanz.de People can send future meeting files to us for upload. The search does not work as of yet --- we are working on debugging and improving it at the moment. You can browse and download files, though. Suggestions are welcome, of course! Best wishes, Jani & the Urdu team at Konstanz -- Sebastian Sulger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger

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The ParGram BSCW workspace
by Helge Dyvik 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Dear colleagues, The ParGram workspace at ling.uib.no/bscw is going to be closed down. The server will be closed down at July 1st, and we have not been able to find a new platform for the BSCW server at the University of Bergen. I will archive the workspace and send the files to whoever wants them. We will look into possible alternative solutions for the future. Best regards, Helge -------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Helge J. Jakhelln Dyvik Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier Faggruppe for lingvistiske fag Universitetet i Bergen Sydnesplassen 7 Tel.: +47 55582261 5007 Bergen E-post: helge.dyvik(a)lle.uib.no --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ParGram prep
by Meladel Mistica 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hi ParGrammarians, The organising committee at Udayana University, particularly Pak Arya, Adi and Seri, have been doing an ace job making sure everything is ready for us, and they've asked me to give you some details about the meeting. 1. PRESENTATIONS The room is fitted with a projector, or if you have handouts you can ask Seri (kmserimalini(a)yahoo.com) to print them for you. I'm happy to upload your presentations/handout onto the Bergen site if you send them to me. 2. INTERNET CONNECTION Wi-fi will be available for us. Login information will be supplied on the first day of the meeting. 3. PRINTER There will be a printer available for us to use. 4. TRANSPORT We will all be picked up at the lobby of our respective hotels. Pick-up time depends on your hotel: Ari Putri Hotel: 8.45am Inna Bali Denpasar: 8.45am Paradise Plaza Hotel: 9:00am Puri Maharani Boutique Hotel: 8:30am Sanur Beach Hotel: 8:45 Because there are not many of us, instead of hiring a shuttle bus, they have opted to do the pick up with cars, so please don't look for a bus. 5. MEALS Coffee/tea is served in the morning at 9:30, and will be available throughout the day. Refreshments also provided (cookies and fruit). A lunch box will be provided during the lunch break. (If you have any strict dietary requirements, please let Pak Wayan or me know.) 6. SCHEDULE A slight change to the first day of the schedule: the Direktur Pacasarjana Udayana Univesity will give us a welcome talk (15 mins), so we will have coffee at 9:30, and the director will talk 9:45-10:00. 7. ParGram DINNER ParGram dinner will be on the last day (Tuesday, 26th of June), Rumah Makan Cianjur, Renon-Denpasar.(Time and means of travel t.b.a) 7. DINNER at Pak Wayan's You are also invited to have dinner at Wayan’s Place in Darmasaba Village 13 kms north of Denpasar on Sunday, 24th of June. (Time and means of travel t.b.a) I will make the assumption that all ParGrammarians will be attending both functions, unless you tell me otherwise. (b.t.w.Wayan's house is set amongst rice paddies, and it's beautiful.) Wishing you all a safe trip to Bali! And a big thank you to the local OC. You guys rock! cheers, Wayan and Meladel

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Internet access at ParGram
by Meladel Mistica 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi all, I've been asked to provide a list of ParGram attendees for network logins and passwords at the uni. If you are coming and your name is not listed below, please let me know. Adam Przepiórkowski Agnieszka Patejuk Bamba Dione Dag Haug Gyorgy Rakosi I Wayan Arka Mary Dalrymple Meladel Mistica Melanie Seiss Miriam Butt Nette Hautli Paul Meurer Ron Kaplan Sebastian Sulger Stefano Quaglia Tibor Laczko Tina Bögel Also, Miriam wisely pointed out that discussing 50 sentences in 1 day may not be very realistic, and so I've got the final final schedule attached :-) Cheers! Meladel

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