» Jens AllwoodJens Allwood
| Jens Allwood Email: jens@ling.gu.se SCCIIL – Center for Interdisciplinary Research Department of Applied Information Technology University of Göteborg S-412 96 Göteborg Sweden |
Affiliations:
- Professor Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Göteborg
- Head, SCCIIL – Center of Interdisciplinary Research, Göteborg
- President, Immigrant Institute
- Marston Hill, Intercultural Center for Quality of Life.
Research interests:
- Linguistics
- Semantics, Pragmatics
- Spoken language
- Intercultural communication
- Computational Linguistics
Jens Allwood’s research mainly comprises research in the areas of semantics and pragmatics. Mostly this research has been focussed on interaction in spoken language including psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects. At present he is heading projects focussed on semantics for spoken language activity based communication analysis, cultural variation in communication and the visualization of complex information. Some current projects are: Deep Lexical Concept Analysis, Activity Based Variation in Spoken Language (financed by RJ – Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), Trust as Resource in Striving for Rationality (in cooperation with the dept. of Business Administration, financed by RJ), Intelligent Instruments for Information Processing (in cooperation with the dept. of Informatics, financed by NUTEK), Cultural Models of Conflict Handling – an intercultural and interdisciplinary study of Malaysia (in cooperation with Malaysian scholars, financed by SAREC), Information Visualization and Exploration Support, IVES, financed by NUTEK and placed at SSKKII – an interdisciplinary center for studies of cognition.
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