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This issue was first published on the no longer existing Gazette webpage of the Freie Universität Berlin.

HPSG Gazette -- Issue #1 (January 2014) --

Outline

Conferences
Conference reports
Publications
HPSG Bibliography - Last entries
Jobs
Strip of the issue

Editorial

Dear All,

We are glad to announce the first issue of the new HPSG Gazette.

Following the tradition of the old Gazette, the new one is a trimestrial (January, April, July, October) digest to distribute every kind of information about HPSG and it's community. Please let us know about HPSG-related talks you have delivered or heard, new HPSG publications, theses and dissertations, new HPSG projects, moves within the HPSG community and any other kind of HPSG related information by sending an email to:

gazette@hpsg.fu-berlin.de

The Gazette needs your collaboration in order to strengthen the internet presence of HPSG and to propagate it throughout the world :)

If you want to post immediately information for the HPSG community, please use in this case The HPSG mailing list.

We hope you enjoy this issue and help us to make the next one (April) larger!

Best regards and happy new year!
Elodie Winckel & Antonio Machicao y Priemer

Conferences

The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Welcome to Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-30 April 2014 for the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
The local arrangements are managed by the Centre for Language Technology (CLT). CLT coordinates the priority research area of language technology within four participating departments.

  • Applied Information Technology,
  • Computer Science and Engineering,
  • Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, and
  • Swedish.
(The first two are shared between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology.) The Faculty of Arts is the host faculty, with the Department of Swedish as the coordinating department, and the director of CLT is Lars Borin, professor of natural language processing.
Registration for EACL 2014 is now open!
Short paper deadline is Monday, 6 January 2014, 23:59 CET.
You will find more information about the conference here: http://eacl2014.org/

The 21th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Buffalo)

The next HPSG Conference will take place in Buffalo, New York! (28-29 August 2014)

See here the call for participation.

Conference reports

The 20th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Berlin)

The 20th International HPSG Conference was held this year at the Freie Universität zu Berlin.
The conference offered (beside the main conference) a tutorial about Linguistic research with large annotated web corpora and a workshop called Progress in Linguistics. You can find some slides and abstracts on the links above.

Here you will find pictures of the tutorial.
Here you will find pictures of the workshop. Some of the slides from the workshop are available here.
And here you will find pictures of the main conference.

Publications

  • The proceedings of the 20th International HPSG Conference are also online.
    You will find them here.
  • Stefan Müller's book Deutsche Syntax deklarativ. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche is now available in PDF format for free.
    Click here to get to the book.
  • The book Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German has been successfully "unglued" and is now available for free here.

HPSG Bibliography: Last entries

Under the following link you will find the last submissions during the last quarter. Thanks to everybody who submitted something!
http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/HPSG-Bib/

Please submit further entries to make the HPSG-Bibliography as complete as possible.

Jobs

Research Positions in Grammar Engineering and Grammar Development -- The Open University and the University of Haifa, Israel http://cl.haifa.ac.il/.

We are looking for research assistants for an externally-funded research project titled "Grammar Engineering and Collaborative Grammar Development". You will be part of a team that develops mechanisms that facilitate collaborative grammar development. An integral part of the project is the development of wide coverage HPSG grammars for Hebrew and Arabic, two genetically related yet significantly different languages. You will be expected to contribute either to the computational effort of designing and implementing grammar engineering solutions, or to the linguistic effort of developing the parallel grammars.
We are looking for research assistants who:

  • have a solid background in computer science, linguistics, or computational linguistics
  • are familiar with contemporary syntactic theories, ideally HPSG
  • are creative, innovative and able to work independently
  • possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English).
To apply, please e-mail an updated CV, with the names and contact details of at least three references, to Shuly Wintner (shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il).

Strip of the issue

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