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HPSG Gazette – Issue #5 (January 2015) –

Outline

Editorial
Report on thesis defense
HPSG Bibliography – Last entries
Strip of the issue

Editorial

Dear All,

we wish you a happy new HPSGear!

Don't forget to submit any HPSG-related information (report on HPSG-related talks, work in progress, theses, new HPSG projects and softwares, moves within the HPSG community, etc.) for the next issue of the gazette (to appear in April) to:

gazette@hpsg.fu-berlin.de

Urgent information should be posted on the the HPSG mailing list rather than sent to the Gazette.

Best regards,
Elodie Winckel & Antonio Machicao y Priemer

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Report on thesis defense

The Syntax-Semantic Interface in the Chinese ba-Construction - Janna Lipenkova

Abstract:
"The ba-construction is one of the few marked argument realization patterns in Chinese and has attracted wide attention both in descriptive and in theoretical linguistics. The talk focusses on its syntax-semantics interface and considers it from different perspectives on argument structure (traditional semantic roles, decomposition, scalar semantics). The proposed approach will combine a formal semantic analysis of the construction with a HPSG formalization. It captures the productivity constraints on the construction, its semantic contribution as well as its interactions with frequently co-occurring structures."

The thesis was defended on January 15th 2015 at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Main supervisors: Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin) und Walter Bisang (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

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HPSG Bibliography: Last entries

Here's the updated bibliography with the submissions since our last issue. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the bibliography!

@inproceedings{Abdelkader:Hamadou:06,
 	address      = "cental.fltr.ucl.ac Leuven Belgique",
 	author       = "Abdelkader, Abdelkarim, Kais Haddar and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou",
 	booktitle    = "proceedings of TALN2006",
 	email        = "kais.haddar@fss.rnu.tn",
 	homepage     = "http://(none)",
 	month        = "APRIL",
 	pages        = "379-388",
 	title        = "Étude et analyse de la phrase nominale arabe en HPSG",
 	url          = "http://www.atala.org/taln_archives/TALN/TALN-2006/taln-2006-poster-001.pdf",
 	year         = "2006"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Boukedi:Haddar:11,
 	address      = "Hissar, Bulgaria",
 	author       = "Boukedi, Sirine and Kais Haddar",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011",
 	email        = "kais.haddar@fss.rnu.tn",
 	editor       = "Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov",
 	homepage     = "http://(none)",
 	month        = "September",
 	pages        = "686-691",
 	title        = "Analyses Tools for Non-head Structures",
 	url          = "http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/R11-1099",
 	year         = "2011"
} 
 
@article{Haddar:Romary:12,
 	author       = "Haddar, Kais, Héla Fehri and Laurent Romary",
 	email        = "kais.haddar@fss.rnu.tn",
 	homepage     = "http://(none)",
 	journal      = "Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics ",
 	number       = "1",
 	pages        = "21-46",
 	title        = "A prototype for projecting HPSG syntactic lexica towards LMF. ",
 	url          = "www.jlcl.org/2012_Heft1/jlcl2012-1-2.pdf",
 	volume       = "27",
 	year         = "2012"
} 
 
@article{Haddar:Boukedi:09,
 	author       = "Haddar, Kais, Ines Zalila and Sirine Boukedi",
 	email        = "kais.haddar@fss.rnu.tn",
 	homepage     = "http://(none)",
 	journal      = "International Journal of Computing and Information Sciences",
 	month        = "January",
 	number       = "1",
 	pages        = "51-60",
 	title        = "A Parser Generation with the LKB for the Arabic Relatives",
 	url          = "http://www.ijcis.info/Vol7N1/Vol7P5N1-PP-51-60.pdf",
 	volume       = "7",
 	year         = "2009"
} 

@book{Luecking:13,
 	address      = "Berlin and Boston",
 	author       = "Andy L{\"u}cking",
 	note         = "Dissertation Univ. Bielefeld",
 	publisher    = "De Gruyter",
 	title        = "Ikonische {Gesten}. {Grundz{\"u}ge} einer linguistischen {Theorie}",
 	year         = "2013"
}

@proceedings{Mueller:14b,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar,
 University at Buffalo",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar,
 University at Buffalo",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2014/",
 	year         = "2014"
} 

@inproceedings{Zalila:Haddar:11,
 	address      = "Hissar, Bulgaria",
 	author       = "Zalila, Ines and Kais Haddar",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011",
 	email        = "kais.haddar@fss.rnu.tn",
 	editor       = "Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov",
 	homepage     = "http://(none)",
 	month        = "September",
 	pages        = "574-579",
 	title        = "Construction of an HPSG Grammar for the Arabic Relative Sentences",
 	url          = "http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/R11-1081",
 	year         = "2011"
} 

Please submit further entries to make the HPSG-Bibliography as complete as possible. Older papers not yet registered are welcome as well.

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