Burghard Rieger

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Burghard Rieger (born November 22, 1937 in Bremen ) is a German linguist , computational linguist and semioticist .

biography

Rieger attended the elementary school in Steinbergen (1946-1949) and the high school in Rinteln until his Abitur (1958). After studying at the universities of LMU in Munich , FAU in Erlangen and RWTH in Aachen , where he obtained his doctorate ( scl ) as Dr. phil. (1969), he worked for Wilhelm Fucks for many years . After doing academic research and teaching at various universities in Germany and abroad, he received his habilitation (1986) at the Philosophical Faculty of the RWTH, where he was appointed private lecturer in German linguistics . 1987 Burghard Rieger was the new Chair for Computational Linguistics of the University in Trier appointed, he as a full professor until his retirement held. In 2003, at the invitation of the Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literature Studies at the University of Trier, he held his farewell lecture on "Semantics and Semiotics, or: About Meaning in General" .
RWTH Aachen awarded Rieger the Borchers badge in 1970 . He was a doctoral fellow from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , a post-doctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation and a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States . He worked as a visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University in California (USA). He was Chairman (1989–1993) of the Society for Linguistic Data Processing (GLDV) and Vice President (1990–1994) of the Society for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW). He was a senator of the University of Trier, vice dean and dean of his department and a longstanding member of the assembly of the University of Trier. Rieger belongs or was on the editorial board of numerous journals, including the International Journal of General Systems (IJGS), Journal of Quanititative Linguistics (JQL), New Mathematics and Natural Computing (NMNC), Review of Applied Linguistics (itl), Zeitschrift für Semiotik ( ZfS). He edited numerous anthologies , conference proceedings and proceedings and acted as editor of the journal LDV-Forum as well as the book series Quantitative Linguistics founded by Gabriel Altmann . In 2013, Rieger was made an honorary member of the Society for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL).

Research priorities

Rieger's analyzes of literary triviality emerged in the context of empirical , quantitative literary studies and stylistics , which they expanded thematically and methodically. On the basis of literary mass phenomena such as the German student poem in particular, the development from lyrical metaphors to clichés was traced and numerically documented in quantitative analyzes through diachronic comparisons of synchronous surveys of the word material used in the poems, which were different at the time of their creation .

The scope of quantitative linguistics extended Rieger studies on ( computational linguistics ) semantics and knowledge representation with a focus on vagueness , uncertainty and underdetermination of meanings through the transfer and application of Zadeh ''s theory of fuzzy (fuzzy) amounts to the structural semantics . In the early 1970s, Rieger introduced the two-level quantitative analysis of lexical units (two-level lexical analysis) , which provides the numerical values ​​for the vector representation of their meanings as a structural context. An algorithm calculates the meanings of words from their empirically determined uses in large, pragmatic, homogeneous amounts of text , measures the ( paradigmatic ) differences of the contexts in which these words occur on the basis of the ( syntagmatic ) collocations of their actual use in the texts and forms the word meanings formally as fuzzy (fuzzy) amounts from the vocabulary.

Rieger work on a dynamic , blurred ( fuzzy ) semantics identify the natural language meanings with the cognitive processes its understanding , wherein the process conditions of the simulation models provide representations of the meanings of words and text content. His computer models (re) construct language understanding as a complex dynamic system of acquiring and learning meanings, the results of which can be checked and observed as changes in the state of the system (computational semiotics) . They are based on the analysis and processing of linguistic units and structures in large text corpora using techniques of quantitative linguistic data analysis and fuzzy (fuzzy) modeling for vectorial representation in high-dimensional semantic spaces .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Poetae Studiosi. Analysis of student poetry from the 19th and 20th centuries. A contribution to the exact scientific investigation of literary mass phenomena. Theses Vowinckel, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 3-7677-0003-4 . (Diss. Aachen 1969)
  • Fuzzy natural language semantics. On the problem of representation and analysis of vague meanings of words. In: J.-H. Scharff (Ed.): Scientific linguistics. Leopoldina Symposion 1976 ( Nova Acta Leopoldina. Treatises of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , NF Volume 54, No. 245), J. Ambrosius Barth , Halle / Saale 1981, pp. 251–276.
  • Fuzzy semantics. The empirical analysis, quantitative description, formal representation and procedural modeling of vague word meanings in texts. Peter Lang Verlag , Bern / Frankfurt / New York / Paris 1989, ISBN 3-631-41704-7 . (Habil. Aachen 1986)
  • Situation Semantics and Computational Linguistics: towards Informational Ecology. A semiotic perspective for cognitive information processing systems. In: K. Kornwachs , K. Jacoby (Ed.): Information. New Questions to a Multidisciplinary Concept. (Proceedings of The 125th EW Heraeus Foundation Seminar on Interdisciplinary Models of Information), [Systems Theory Series], Akademie Verlag , Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-501665-3 , pp. 285-315.
  • Why fuzzy linguistics? Considerations and approaches of a new computational linguistic orientation . In: Dieter Krallmann, H. Walter Schmitz (Ed.): Perspektiven einer Kommunikationwissenschaft. International Gerold Ungeheuer Symposium, Essen 1995 . Vol. 1, Nodus Publications, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89323-651-1 , pp. 153-183 (online here ).
  • Semiotics and Computational Linguistics. On Semiotic Cognitive Information Processing. In: Lotfi A. Zadeh , Janusz Kacprzyk (Ed.): Computing with Words in Information / Intelligent Systems I: Foundations (= Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. 33). Physica Verlag , Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-7908-1217-X , pp. 93-118.
  • Computing Granular Word Meanings. A fuzzy linguistic approach to computational semiotics. In: Paul P. Wang (Ed.): Computing with Words (=  Wiley Series on Intelligent Systems. 3). John Wiley & Sons , New York 2001, ISBN 0-471-35374-4 , pp. 147-208.
  • Semiotic Cognitive Information Processing: Learning to Understand Discourse. A systemic model of meaning constitution. In: R. Kühn, R. Menzel , W. Menzel, U. Ratsch, MM Richter, IO Stamatescu (eds.): Adaptivity and Learning. Springer Verlag , Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00091-7 , pp. 347-403.
  • On Understanding Understanding. Perception-Based Processing of NL Texts in SCIP Systems, or Meaning Constitution as Visualized Learning. In: A. Artás, J.-L. Fernández-Villacañas Martin (Ed.): Learning: Advances in Multimedia Communications, Information Processing, and Education. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics [SMC-Special Issue], Part C: Vol. 34, No. 4, Piscataway, NJ ( IEEE ) 2004, ISSN  1094-6977 , pp. 425-438.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Set of slides for the lecture as a PP presentation and as a PDF file
  2. ↑ CSLI homepage
  3. ↑ GTW -Homepage today's Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer
  4. ↑ The meeting was to 2010 - in addition to the Senate and university administration - a central organ of the University gem. Sections 69 and 70 of the state laws on academic universities in Rhineland-Palatinate (HochsSchG 1987, UG 1995).
  5. ↑ since 2008 Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)
  6. ↑ GSCL "In recognition of his contributions to the discipline of computational linguistics in German-speaking countries and for his services to the further development of the Society for Linguistic Data Processing (GLDV; today: GSCL)"
  7. ↑ B. Rieger: Literary mass phenomena and volume-oriented text analysis. On the subject and method of trivial literature research. In: H. de la Motte-Haber (ed.): The trivial in literature, music and the visual arts . V. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1972, pp. 42-62.
  8. ^ B. Rieger: Poetae Studiosi. Analysis of student poetry from the 19th and 20th centuries. Thesen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  9. ↑ B. Rieger: A 'tolerant' lexicon structure. For mapping natural linguistic meanings onto 'fuzzy' sets. In: Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics . Vol. 4 Issue 16, 1974, pp. 31-47.
  10. ^ BB Rieger: On Distributed Representations in Word Semantics. (PDF 551 kB). ICSI Berkeley Tech Report 12 (1991)
  11. ↑ B. Rieger: Fuzzy semantics. P. Lang Verlag, Bern / Frankfurt / New York / Paris 1989.
  12. ↑ BB Rieger: Discourse Understanding as Image Generation. On perception-based processing of NL texts in SCIP systems. (PDF 275 kB). In: David Al-Dabass (Ed.): UKSIM-2003 Conference Proceedings of the UK Simulation Society. Emmanuel College (Cambridge) , 2003, ISBN 1-84233-088-8 , pp. 1-8.
  13. ↑ Harald Atmanspacher : A Semiotic Approach to Complex Systems. In: Mehler, A, Köhler, R. (Ed.): Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis . Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (= Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol. 209). Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37520-3 , pp. 79-91.
  14. ^ Edda Leopold: On Semantic Spaces. (PDF 443 kB). In: LDV-Forum / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2005, pp. 63-86. ISSN  0175-1336
  15. ^ Peter Gritzmann : On the Mathematics of Semantic Spaces. In: A. Mehler, R. Köhler (Eds.): Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis . Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (=  Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol. 209). Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37520-3 , pp. 95-115.
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Burghard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieger, Burghard B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computational linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen