Lexical Functional Grammar

Welcome to the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) Home Page.

Main Things

• ILFGA Home Page Home Page of the International Lexical Functional Grammar Association.
• Bibliography Bibliography of work on LFG.
• LFG Proceedings Access to on-line versions of the Proceedings of LFG Conferences.
• The LFG List Archives of the LFG email discussion list.
• The LFG Bulletin News -- what's happening.
• The LFG Database People who work on LFG (with instructions on how to add your own name).
• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about LFG (including `What is it?'). This is where you will find what used to be `the Essex LFG pages'.

Current research directions in LFG

• LFG Morphosyntax [this is being updated, follow this link for some older notes].
• LFG in an Optimality Theory (OT) Setting [this is being updated, follow this link and this link. for some older notes].
• Glue: Linear Logic for meaning assembly in LFG
• DOP-LFG: probabilistic lexical-functional analysis

Upcoming Conferences

LFG2010 (Fifteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference), Carleton University, Ottowa, Canada, UK, July 18-20, 2010

For previous conferences, follow this link.

Historical Interest

• Archive of Papers on LFG (pre 2000): An archive of papers on LFG from the last century.
• Work on LFG Morphosyntax from the last century.
• Work on LFG and Optimality Theory (OT) from the last century.
• The LFG List Archives of the LFG email discussion list.

Other Links

• Palo Alto Research Center's Natural Language Theory and Technology Group.
• Chris Manning's Guide to the best linguistic resources on the web.
• XLE Web Interface (from the LOGON Norwegian-English MT project):
  • Choose a grammar, type in a sentence and view the corresponding c-structures, f-structures, and mrs-structures (try Kim loves Sandy. with the English grammar; you can also try the grammars for German and Norwegian (bokmal-mrs)).
• NORLFG: mailing list for those interested in LFG and the Nordic languages.
• Probabilistic LFG F-Structure Parsing: from Dublin City University/Irish National Centre for Language Technology -- try out the wide coverage English grammar (you will get back c- and f-structures, inter alia).