Per Anker Jensen
Professor emeritus
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business Academy
Denmark
Biography
My research comprises both basic and applied research involving structure and meaning in natural languages, particularly Danish and English. Among other things, my basic research investigates the possibility of translating hypotheses about linguistic structure and meaning into formal mathematical-logical representations suitable for use by computers. This is an important prerequisite for developing "intelligent" computersystems in a sense which comes anywhere near the human sense of intelligence since language forms the very basis on which the advanced human conceptual apparatus develops. In particular, on the applied side, I have worked in collaborative projects on systems for information retrieval and knowledge extraction from large text databases.
Research Interest
My research comprises both basic and applied research involving structure and meaning in natural languages, particularly Danish and English. Among other things, my basic research investigates the possibility of translating hypotheses about linguistic structure and meaning into formal mathematical-logical representations suitable for use by computers. This is an important prerequisite for developing "intelligent" computersystems in a sense which comes anywhere near the human sense of intelligence since language forms the very basis on which the advanced human conceptual apparatus develops. In particular, on the applied side, I have worked in collaborative projects on systems for information retrieval and knowledge extraction from large text databases.
Publications
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"“A Semantics-Based Approach to Retrieving Biomedical Informationâ€. (2011). In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2011. Ed.: H. Christiansen. Heidelberg: Springer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. s. 108-118. (Med T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov, T.Lassen, B.N.Madsen, J.F.Nilsson, H.E.Thomsen, S.Zambach). "
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â€On Type Coercion in Compositional and Lexical Semanticsâ€. (2011) I: Mathematics of Language.12th Biennial Conference, MOL 12, Nara, Japan.. Eds. Makoto Kanazawa; András Kornai; Markus Kracht; Hiroyuki Seki. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. s. 108-125 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6878). (Med Carl Vikner).
