Bengt Sigurd
Biographic Data
| ID | 387801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bengt Sigurd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bengt |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigurd |
| SIGNATURE | SIGURD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Computerized Grammars for Analysis and Machine Translation
Analysis of Particle Verbs for Automatic Translation
A number of typical particle verbs in Swedish and English are presented and it is noted that such verbs are often forgotten in dictionaries and not given the proper treatment in grammars. One problem is the identification of these verbs, another is the fact that the verb and the particle may be separated by other words. The particle verbs must therefore be treated as discontinuous lexical items. It is shown that the phrase structure rules used in…
Using Referent Grammar (RG) in Computer Analysis, Generation and Translation of Sentences
The paper presents Referent Grammar (RG), a version of generalized phrase structure grammar. RG uses descriptive labels for defective categories (categories tacking a constituent) instead of slash expressions and needs no null (empty, zero) categories. RG uses both functional and categorial representations and the grammar rules, written in the Prolog DCG formalism, relate these two levels. The functional representations of RG include referent var…
Round numbers
Numbers are used for exact and approximative estimations. The numbers used in approximative expressions are typically so-called round numbers, such as 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, and such numbers are also very frequent in texts. This article presents evidence that some numbers are rounder than others and discusses how the roundness of a number can be derived from its contents of the base number of the numeral System of the culture. A form…
Communication and Equality
Commentator
The Commentator is a small-scale computer implementation of a model oftext production. The system simulates human behavior from the perceptionof events on a screen to the utterances. It is designed to allow anyone havingsome knowledge of Basic and access to a microcomputer to study the semantics of words (e.g. localization and movement predicates such asapproach, left/right, near, in front of, turn, overtake), pronouns, and sentence connectives s…
Maximum Rate and Minimal Duration of Repeated Syllables
Among the interesting questions related to tongue-twisters is the question how fast syllables of different types can be repeated. A simple pilot experiment with strings of open syllables such as [tatata...], [stastasta...], [strastrastra ...] was carried out. Differences in the results are interpreted as being due to individual differences in motor skills and to differences in the phonetic material of the syllables. Two simple mathematical models…
Preliminary Studies in the Development of Techniques for Testing Overall Second Language Proficiency1
Phonotactic Structures in Swedish
Preliminary Studies in the Development of Techniques for Testing Overall Second Language Proficiency1
Maximum Rate and Minimal Duration of Repeated Syllables
Among the interesting questions related to tongue-twisters is the question how fast syllables of different types can be repeated. A simple pilot experiment with strings of open syllables such as [tatata...], [stastasta...], [strastrastra ...] was carried out. Differences in the results are interpreted as being due to individual differences in motor skills and to differences in the phonetic material of the syllables. Two simple mathematical models…
Phonotactic Structures in Swedish
Preliminary Studies in the Development of Techniques for Testing Overall Second Language Proficiency1
Maximum Rate and Minimal Duration of Repeated Syllables
Among the interesting questions related to tongue-twisters is the question how fast syllables of different types can be repeated. A simple pilot experiment with strings of open syllables such as [tatata...], [stastasta...], [strastrastra ...] was carried out. Differences in the results are interpreted as being due to individual differences in motor skills and to differences in the phonetic material of the syllables. Two simple mathematical models…
Commentator
The Commentator is a small-scale computer implementation of a model oftext production. The system simulates human behavior from the perceptionof events on a screen to the utterances. It is designed to allow anyone havingsome knowledge of Basic and access to a microcomputer to study the semantics of words (e.g. localization and movement predicates such asapproach, left/right, near, in front of, turn, overtake), pronouns, and sentence connectives s…
Communication and Equality
Using Referent Grammar (RG) in Computer Analysis, Generation and Translation of Sentences
The paper presents Referent Grammar (RG), a version of generalized phrase structure grammar. RG uses descriptive labels for defective categories (categories tacking a constituent) instead of slash expressions and needs no null (empty, zero) categories. RG uses both functional and categorial representations and the grammar rules, written in the Prolog DCG formalism, relate these two levels. The functional representations of RG include referent var…
Round numbers
Numbers are used for exact and approximative estimations. The numbers used in approximative expressions are typically so-called round numbers, such as 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, and such numbers are also very frequent in texts. This article presents evidence that some numbers are rounder than others and discusses how the roundness of a number can be derived from its contents of the base number of the numeral System of the culture. A form…
Analysis of Particle Verbs for Automatic Translation
A number of typical particle verbs in Swedish and English are presented and it is noted that such verbs are often forgotten in dictionaries and not given the proper treatment in grammars. One problem is the identification of these verbs, another is the fact that the verb and the particle may be separated by other words. The particle verbs must therefore be treated as discontinuous lexical items. It is shown that the phrase structure rules used in…
Computerized Grammars for Analysis and Machine Translation
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Rule-based machine translation (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)