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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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Fwd: [iness] Draft for a DELA for depositing ParGram in INESS
by Sebastian Sulger 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi, I am forwarding below a message from Gunn who, at the INESS workshop, again stressed the importance of establishing licensing terms for all treebanks integrated in INESS. For ParGramBank, Gunn suggests that the DELA ("Deposition License Agreement") could be signed by a single copyright holder on behalf of the ParGramBank collective; I suggested Miriam as that person. That person then would have to get written consent from each individual treebank/grammar team who is part of ParGramBank. Once the copyright holder has that written consent from everyone, the DELA can be signed, and ParGramBank can be distributed in INESS under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Gunn also says that it is important that people know they still own the rights to the annotations/analyses; it's just that INESS is officially allowed to distribute them. I attach the original template document she sent me. For each individual ParGramBank treebank, the developer can be indicated on the treebank information page, so that appropriate credit is given. If you have taken part in ParGramBank, or if you would like to participate in the future, could I ask the following: 1. Please check the attached form and make sure you are fine with the distribution of your work over INESS as well as the proposed license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). 2. If you have any issues with the DELA, let Miriam and me know; we can then discuss changes. If all of it is fine by you, we can then get written consent from you (we are currently working out the details) and finally license/distribute ParGramBank. Thanks & Best, Jani -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [iness] Draft for a DELA for depositing ParGram in INESS Datum: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:59:00 +0000 Von: Gunn Inger Lyse Samdal <Gunn.Lyse(a)uib.no> An: sebastian.sulger(a)uni-konstanz.de <sebastian.sulger(a)uni-konstanz.de> Kopie (CC): Victoria Rosén <victoria(a)uib.no>, Koenraad De Smedt <desmedt(a)uib.no> Dear Sebastian, I hope you arrived safely at home today, it was very nice to see you again. Please find attached a draft for a DELA for depositing ParGram in INESS. The best thing is perhaps if you fill in with the details available to you, and then you present it to Miriam in a state which looks more finished than the template I send you. Please CC me in your mail to her, and let me know what she thinks. If she is positive, the next step is for her to ask for a written consent from a representative for each treebank in the ParGram collection (that they agree that Miriam can sign a DELA for distribution through INESS on behalf of all the developers. It is very important that she underlines to them that the ownership remains with them, INESS only offers a distribution channel for the collection.) I suppose for the Norwegian one, for instance: Helge or Victoria must give their consent to Miriam. When Miriam has a written consent from each of them, we can proceed to get the DELA signed and create metadata. And please note that I send you an editable version, please make sure that you don’t change anything apart from the text parts where I specifically indicate that you edit :) When you are ready with a version for signing, please send it to me for a final check. Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Best, Gunn -- 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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[XLE] 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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request to distribute
by Annie Zaenen 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

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Request to distribute the following announcement
by Annie Zaenen 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Please distribute! Thanks, Annie Call for Papers (Special Issue) Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) 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 (Université Aix-Marseille), 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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possible interns at Intel
by Mistica, Meladel 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Dear all, We are looking for two interns for a couple of months at Intel, and I was hoping that you may have LFG postgraduates that you could recommend. We need two people as soon as possible: one who speaks Italian and another who speaks French. Preferably, they would also be interested in computational linguistics. If you have any students who fit this profile, please ask them to contact me or Martin (CC’ed). We’d prefer it if they can work with us in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley), but it’s fine if they can only work in the EU – we have an office in Seville. Thank you in advance! Best wishes, Mel

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Fwd: Invitation to the 2015 DELPH-IN Summit
by Miriam Butt 21 May '15

21 May '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Invitation to the 2015 DELPH-IN Summit Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 20:54:45 -0700 From: Emily M. Bender <ebender(a)uw.edu> To: Miriam Butt <miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de>, standing(a)delph-in.net <standing(a)delph-in.net> Dear Miriam, Would you forward the message below to the ParGram list for me? Many thanks, Emily 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: http://moin.delph-in.net/TomarSchedule http://moin.delph-in.net/SummitTop 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: http://moin.delph-in.net/SingaporeTop Any ParGram members interested in attending should email summit(a)delph-in.net <mailto:summit@delph-in.net> to make their interest known. Emily, for the DELPH-IN Standing Committee -- Emily M. Bender Professor, Department of Linguistics Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma

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