Sture AllÃ©n

Sture Allén ( pronunciation: [ ˌ stʉ ː ɹə ale ː n], born December 31, 1928 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish linguist. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg, where he has worked between 1972-93 with computational linguistics. Since 1980 he is a member of the Swedish Academy and had from 1986-99 where the Office of the Permanent Secretary held. He was one of the opponents in the Salman Rushdie affair, as a result Kerstin Ekman, Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström left the academy. Furthermore, he is since 1976 member of the Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg, since 1988 Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets academies, since 1994, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and since 2000, the Finnish Academy of Sciences.

In the 1970s, he became known internationally for its pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and lexigraphie. He has published in the years 1970-1980 the Nusvensk frekvensordbok ( Neuschwedische frequency dictionary ), in which more than 1 million words and phrases from the Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg dailies were electronically recorded and analyzed. In 1975 he founded the order of the Swedish government a linguistic database ( språkbanken ) in which collected all electronic texts, stored, processed and should be made available.

Despite his research in the field of computer linguistics Allén has also profiled in the language cultivation and sees his work as always humanistic and not as technical research.

Linguist
University teachers ( University of Gothenburg )
Member of the Academies Svenska
Swede
Born in 1928
Man
Member of the Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets Academies
Member of the Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science
Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences

List of members of the Swedish Academy Integrated Authority File

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