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The Archive provides information about finished projects, former activities and publications from the Linguistics Department for the topic of HPSG. 

Bibliography

The extensive Tübingen HPSG-Bibliography includes all of the publications on the topic of HPSG and related works which were written by both Tübingen researchers, and outside researchers during their stay in Tübingen. They give an overall picture of the work being done in HPSG in Tübingen.

The main idea behind this bibliography is to support those interested in the work done in HPSG in Tübingen and make these works directly accessible. Therefore the bibliography includes links, wherever possible, to download versions of papers recorded in the bibliography. Of course, this does not include externally copyrighted papers, or papers which have been published in books or periodicals. These works should, however, be readily available at libraries. On the other hand, the bibliography includes technical reports, contributions to conferences, or even unpublished manuscripts, which are from time to time referenced in literature, as well as various theses, which are often difficult to obtain. We hope that our on-line library makes these works more readily available.

A copiable Bibtex entry in a separate file to all the papers will be made available to the Latex user. Additionally, there are, wherever possible, links to the web pages of the authors and to pages where further information on the papers, (for example, abstracts) can be found. Moreover, numerous thematically sorted sub-bibliographies are available alongside the bibliographies which are alphabetically ordered according to author. The thematic search enables the user to investigate literature in particular areas of specialization, which in turn can be categorized by sub-headings in the bibliography. Such special subjects may include: Syntax of German Verbal Complexes, Syntax of Long Dependencies, Phenomena of Clitics, Feature Logic Foundations of HPSG and Implementation Platforms. 

CLAIRE and CLaRK

CLAIRE and CLaRK were two completely different projects, begun by Paul King and continued to their closing stages by Frank Richter, after Paul King's departure. CLAIRE stands for Constraint Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Review and Evaluation, and is concerned with a collaboration between the Tübingen Linguistics Department and the Computational Linguistics/Machine Translation Group at the University of Essex in England. The object of the academic exchange was the examination of the relationship between LFG and HPSG, which was discussed in a total of six work shops, attended by many visiting academics, and discussed during a summer school course at the ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham.

CLaRK is the abbreviation for the Tübingen-Sofia International Graduate Programme in Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge, which was a doctoral program managed by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and by our Linguistics Department. Students in pursuit of their Master's degree have also been working within the perimeters of this program, in Sofia. Two summer school programs have been set up. The first one was in Tübingen in 1999. An additional one was organized one year later in the gorgeous, coastal town of Sozopol, Bulgaria. Of course we shouldn't forget to mention the CLaRK-Archive, where you can also find pictures of the stunning summer school in Sozopol. 

HPSG Gazette

The HPSG Gazette was an electronic news forum for the HPSG researchers, which appeared in seven issues, from September 1996 to December 1998. It contained news about upcoming or past conferences, dissertation projects, the newest publications and web pages, announced open positions and people who had just begun a new position. While all this is no longer brand new, the HPSG Gazette still offers today an occasional amusing snap shot of an active research community and their various activities. It's worth having a look at it, just to glimpse into the past.  

Tübingen HPSG-Projects of the SFB 340

Against the backdrop of the former Special Research Program (SFB) 340, which was concurrently established in both Stuttgart and Tübingen, two research projects, exclusively devoted to HPSG, were under development. The first project, B4, which was in progress from 1992 to the end of 2000, was primarily concerned with questions of implementation and application. The other project, B8, in progress from 1995 to the end of 2000 mainly delineated and executed extensive, theoretically motivated fragments of German, and tested and transferred these fragments on computers with software developed in Project B4. Not only did ConTroll and TRALE emerge from these two projects, but so did many special studies investigating questions of German syntax and general grammar theory. In the sphere of the SFB projects, active research has developed, in which questions are posed concerning formal foundations, the integration of semantic formalisms in HPSG and theoretical-linguistic inquiries about other individual languages such as Polish, Hebrew, Italian or French.

The results of the Tübingen HPSG-projects of the SFB 340 can, of course, be found in the above described Tübingen on-line library as well as in the web pages of implementation platforms. Special web pages have been created to contain the legacy of these projects. There you will find the project proposals, the final project reports, the papers which were published in the tech report series of the SFB 340, the dissertations which were written by project colleagues as well as numerous Master's and Diploma theses. These pages are an ideal "catch all" for documents which are otherwise rather difficult to access. In what concerns academic works, they can also, of course, be found in the general bibliography. 

Last modified: 17.04.2003