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Per Anker Jensen

Professor
Per Anker Jensen

Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics

Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.016
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3303
Fax:+45 3815 3820
E-mail: paj.isv@cbs.dk



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Theoretical and computational linguistics, in particular problems in the areas of formal syntax and semantics, natural language processing, and ontology-based natural language semantics.

Primary research areas

  • Theoretical linguistics
  • Formal syntax and semantics of natural languages
  • The interface between ontology and natural language semantics
  • Natural language processing
  • Ontology-based information retrieval and information extraction


Selected publications

Books
Natursprogsbehandling og unifikationsgrammatik I. (1996). Computational Linguistics 2. Handelshøjskolens Forlag. København. 202 pages. (With Carl Vikner).
Natursprogsbehandling og unifikationsgrammatik II. (1996) Computational Linguistics 2. Handelshøjskolens Forlag. København. 317 pages. (With Carl Vikner).
Principper for grammatisk analyse. (1985/1997). Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck. 180 pages.
Transformationel Syntaks. (1979).  Anglica & Americana Monograph Series vol. 8. 286 pages. University of Copenhagen.
Papers and conference presentations
"What Goes on at the Syntax-Phonetics Interface? Evidence from Danish er-Contraction". (2011). Paper presented at SJUSK2011. Nordisk symposium om naturligt talesprog. November 23-24, 2011. Copenhagen Business School. Denmark.
“Genitiv-syntaks: Er s et D eller et G?” (2011). Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Danish Grammar Network. October 27-29, 2011. Kerteminde, Denmark.
"Mikkelsens tillægsfald i et generativt perspektiv." (2011). Paper presented at the symposium Mikkelsens Ordföjningslære 100 år. University of Aarhus, Denmark. October 13-14, 2011.
 
”On Type Coercion in Compositional and Lexical Semantics”. (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). (With Carl Vikner).
“A Semantics-Based Approach to Retrieving Biomedical Information”. (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. (With T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov, T.Lassen, B.N.Madsen, J.F.Nilsson, H.E.Thomsen, S.Zambach).
”The OntoGram-Approach to Text Processing and Semantic Relation Spotting for Indexing”. (2011). I: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2011). Ed.: Y. Ding. Shanghai, China: IEEE, 2011. s. 1840-1846. (With T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov and T.Lassen).
"Extracting Conceptual Feature Structures from Text". (2011). In: Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Henryk Rybinski, Andrzej Skowron, Zbigniew W. Ra´s (Eds.):  Foundations of Intelligent Systems 19th International Symposium, ISMIS 2011. Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6804. Springer. (With T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov and T.Lassen).
”Ontological Type Coercion in Lexical Semantics”. Paper presented to The Copenhagen Symposium on Approaches to the Lexicon. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. December 2010. (With Carl Vikner).
“Conceptual Indexing of Text Using Ontologies and Lexical Resources.” (2009). Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, (With T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov and T.Lassen). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer.
“ONTOGRABBING: Extracting Information from Texts Using Generative Ontologies”. (2009). Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems.Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer. (With J.F.Nilsson and B.A.Szymczak)
“SIABO. Semantic Information Access through Biomedical Ontologies.” (2009). Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (With T.Andreasen, H.Bulskov, T.Lassen, B.N.Madsen, J.F.Nilsson, B.A.Szymczak, H.E.Thomsen, S.Zambach).
”Menneskets sprog. Et forskningsunivers”. (2007) I: M. Rathje et al. (red.): Ved lejlighed. Festskrift til Niels Davidsen-Nielsen i anledning af hans 70-års fødselsdag. Publiceret af Dansk Sprognævn.
”Leksikalsk semantik og omverdensviden”. (2006). In: Braasch A. & P. Paggio: Sprogteknologi i dansk perspektiv. 229-244. Reitzel. (With Carl Vikner).
“Ontology-Based Semantics for Prepositions”. (2006). In: Patrick Saint-Dizier (ed.): Syntax  and Semantics of Prepositions, 217-233. Springer. (With Jørgen Fischer Nilsson).
”Content-based Text Querying with Ontological Descriptors” (2004). In: Data & Knowledge Engineering 48, 199-219, Elsevier. (With T. Andreasen; Jørgen Fischer Nilsson; P.Paggio; B.Sandford Pedersen & H.Erdman Thomsen).
”The English Pre-nominal Genitive and Lexical Semantics.” (2004).  In: Ji-yung Kim, Yury A. Lander, Barbara H. Partee (red.): Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 29, 2-27. Amherst, Massachusetts. (With Carl Vikner).
“Producer Interpretations of the English Pre-nominal Genitive.” Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung VII. Konstanz, 2002. (With Carl Vikner)
”Parsing”. Artikel i Den Store Danske Encyklopædi. Supplementsbind. (2002).
“OntoQuery: Ontology-based Querying of Texts” (2002). In: Karlgren, Jussi; Pentti Kanerva, & Björn Gambäck (eds.): Acquiring (and using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access. AAAI-2002 Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Pp. 28-31. (With Troels Andreasen; Jørgen Fischer Nilsson; Patrizia Paggio; Bolette Sandford Pedersen & Hanne Erdman Thomsen).
”A Semantic Analysis of the English Genitive. Interaction of Lexical and Formal Semantics.” (2002). Studia Linguistica 56, 2, 191-226. (With Carl Vikner).
“Introduction”. (2001). Nordic Journal of Linguistics, vol. 24.2. Special issue on the theme ”The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory.” Guest editor.
”Towards an Ontology-based Interpretation of Noun Phrases.” (2001). In: Per Anker Jensen & Peter Rossen Skadhauge (eds.): Ontology-based Interpretation of Noun Phrases Proceedings of the First International OntoQuery Workshop 2001. (With Jørgen Fischer Nilsson and Carl Vikner).
“Linearization and Diathetic Alternations in Danish”. (2001). In Tibor Kiss & Detmar Meurers: “Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. CSLI-publications, Stanford. 2001. (With Peter R. Skadhauge.)
"The Double Nature of the verb have". In K.Van Durme & Lene Schøsler (eds.): Studies in Valency IV. Valency and Verb Typology. Rask Supplement Vol. 8. Odense University Press 1998. (With Carl Vikner).
“On the Semantics of Agentive af in Danish.” (1997). In Carl Bache & Alex Klinge (eds.): Sounds, Structures and Senses. Essays Presented to Niels Davidsen-Nielsen on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday: 127-148.  Odense University Press.
"Sammensætninger og ikke-relationelle substantiver". In: LAMBDA 20: Irène Baron (red.): NORDLEX-Projektet. Sammensatte substantiver i dansk, pp. 89-98. 1994. (With Carl Vikner).
"Lexical Knowledge and the Semantic Analysis of Danish Genitive Constructions." (1994). In Steffen Leo Hansen and Helle Wegener (eds.): Topics in Knowledge-based NLP-Systems. Samfundslitteratur: 37-55. (With Carl Vikner).
"Genitive Phrases in Danish". (1994). In Herslund, M. (ed.): Noun Phrase Structures, Copen¬hagen Studies in Language vol. 17: 47-92. Samfundslitteratur.
"Generalizations in GPSG and N1-adjuncts in Danish." In LAMBDA 19: Papers from the FAGFLADE-Workshop. Schæffergården 30 - 31 March 1993: 73-85. 1993.
"Data, Corpora, and Linguistic Research".  (1989). HERMES 2, s. 179 - 186. (With Finn Sørensen and Carl Vikner).
"Syntaks og ufonologi". I N. Davidsen-Nielsen (red.): Festskrift til Jens Rasmussen, s. 90 - 115. Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck 1986.
"Simultaneous Interpretation. On Error Typologies and the Possibility of Gaining Insight in Mental Processes." (1985). In: META vol. 30 no. 1: Special Issue on Conference Inter¬pretation, pp. 106-113. Montréal.
"Pragmatics of the Simple and Expanded Present. A Speech Act Analysis", (1978). Occasional Papers 1976-1977. Publications of the Department of English. University of Copenhagen 1978. s. 12 - 63. (With  J.E. Andersen, B. Conrad, T. Har¬pøth, S. Svagin and J. Svendsen).


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