Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium. These meetings are held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform is welcome to attend. We also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench, running in Medley.

The first half of these meetings consists of a discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, depending on how much time is remaining, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the ParGram treebank sentences as a starting point. We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). You are welcome to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences.

In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Welsh, etc. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository.

If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send an email to Lawrence, Elaine, or Mary.