Professor of Computer ScienceProfessor of Linguistics
Computer Sciences Department Linguistics DepartmentUniversity of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706
Madison, WI 53706-1685
(emeritus, 2003)
telephone: (608) 262-1204fax: (608) 262-9777
email: sklein@cs.wisc.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1963Interests:
Meta-linguistic pragmatics of artificial intelligence and grammars.
Archaeology of knowledge structures,
Testing models of language interaction, change and transmission in 3d-virtual world simulations.
3. The combinatoric problems associated with unrestricted models of human
language processing suggest that real-world knowledge systems may have evolved
in forms that make combinatoric processing problems linear. I am currently
investigating the role of Boolean groups and analogy in complex behavioral
systems, including the representation of categorial grammars. Grammars in
this notation can readily be implemented in connectionist models, and may
provide a transparent means of linking language structure to neural net theory.
My research effort has occasionally involved analysis of archaeological materials
as early as the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition.
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A recent paper:
Klein, S.
2002. “The Analogical Foundations of Creativity in Language, Culture
& the Arts:
the Upper
Paleolithic to 2100CE.”
In Language, Vision & Music, edited by Paul McKevitt,
Conn Mulvihill & Sen O' Nuallin, Amsterdam: John Benjamin, pp. 347-371.
Revised & expanded version of Klein (1999).
Klein, S. 1999. "The Analogical Foundations of Creativity in Language, Culture & the Arts: the Upper Paleolithic to 2100CE,"Proceedings of The Eighth International Workship on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8). Theme: Language, Vision & Music, 9th-11th August, 1999, edited by Paul McKevitt, Conn Mulvihill, Sen O' Nuallin & Colm O'Riordan, pp. 20-32, Information Technology Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway. [Invited Plenary Paper]
also,
Klein, S. 2002. "Tying Loose
Ends in Kawaiisu Phonology," Survey Report #12: Proceedings of
the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Survey of California and Other Indian
Languages, June 8-9, 2002. Edited by Lisa
Conathan & Teresa McFarland, Linguistics Dept., UC-Berkeley.
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Selected Sample Publications
Klein, S. & R. F. Simmons.
1963. A Computational Approach to Grammatical Coding of English Words.
Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 10: 334-347.
Klein, S. & R. F. Simmons. 1963. Syntactic Dependence and the Computer Generation of Coherent Discourse. Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, 7: 50-61
Klein, S. 1965. Automatic Paraphrasing
in Essay Format.
Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics 8: 68-83.
Klein, S. 1965. Control of
Style with a Generative Grammar.
Language, 41:619-631.
Also, in German translationas, Stilkontrolle mit einer generativen
Grammatik. Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik: Ergebnisse und Perspektiven.
Edited by Jens Ihwe, Vol. 1, pp. 234-252, Frankfurt am
Main: Athenäum, 1971.
Klein, S. 1972. Nekotorye komponenty programmy dinamicheskogo modelirovannija istoricheskix ismenij v jazyke. Novoe v lingvistke, vypuck vi, jazykovye kontakty. Pod. red. B. Ju. Rozencvejga, Moscow: isdatel'cstvo "Progress." pp. 141-154, [Russian translation of 'Some Components of a Program for Dynamic Modelling of Historical Change in Language,' Preprints of Invited Papers for the 1965 International Conference on Computational Linguistics, May 19-21, New York,. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics]
Klein, S. 1966. Historical
Change in Language using Monte Carlo Techniques.
Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics 9:67-82.
Journal of Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior
1: 10-20.
Klein, S., S. L. Lieman, &
G. E. Lindstrom. 1968. DISEMINER: A Distributional-Semantics Inference Maker.
Journal of Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior
1: 10-20.
Klein, S., W. Fabens,
R. Herriot, W. Katke, M. A. Kuppin & A.
Towster. 1968. The AUTOLING System,
UWCS Tech Report
No. 43, 85 pages.
Klein, S. & M. A. Kuppin.
1970. An Interactive, Heuristic Program for Learning Transformational Grammars.
Computer Studies in the Humanities & Verbal Behavior 3:
144-162.
Klein, S. 1976.
FORWARD: The History of MESSY. In The Meta-symbolic Simulation
System User Manual,
M. A. Appelbaum.
UWCS Tech. Report No. 272,169 pages.
Klein, S. 1974. Computer Simulation of Language Contact Models, in Toward Tomorrows Linguistics. Edited by R. Shuy & C-J. Bailey, Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, pp 276-90.
Klein, S., J.F. Aeschlimann,
D. F. Balsiger, S. L. Converse, C. Court, M. Foster,
R. Lao, J. D. Oakely & J. D. Smith. 1973.
AUTOMATIC NOVEL WRITING, UWCS Tech Report No. 186,109
pages..
An abridged version also appears in,
Text Processing/Textverarbeitung.
Edited by W. Burghardt & K. Hölker, pp. 338-412,
Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1979.
Klein, S., Aeschliman, Applebaum, Balsisger, Curtis, Foster, Kalish, Kamin, Lee & Price 1976. Simulation d'hypothèses émisés par Propp et Lévi-Strauss en utilisant un système de simulation meta-symbolique. Informatique et Sciences Humaines, No. 28, pp. 63-133, Mars. [A revised and expanded French translation of 'Modelling Propp and Lévi-Strauss in a Meta-symbolic Simulation System.' in Patterns in Oral Literature, edited by H. Jason & D. Segal, World Anthropology Series, The Hague: Mouton, 1977, with a new Lévi-Strauss model, a revised Propp model, and a different set of computer generated folktales.]
Klein, S. 1983. Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture. Current Anthropology 24:151-180.
Klein S. 1988. Narrative Style in Variants of a Kawaiisu Myth Text, in In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics. Edited by William Shipley, pp. 467-48l, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Klein S. 1988. Reply to S.D. Siemens' critique of S. Klein's 'Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture (Klein 1983)'. Current Anthropology 29:478-483.
Klein, S. 1990. Human cognitive changes at the middle to upper Paleolithic transition: The evidence of Boker Tachtit, in The Emergence of Modern Humans: An Archaeological Perspective, P. Mellars, ed., pp. 499-516, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Klein, S. 1991. The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems
in the upper Paleolithic,
in The Origins of Human Behaviour, R. Foley, ed., pp. 67-81, Unwin
Hyman, London.
Klein, S. 1996. Grammars, the I Ching and Levi-Strauss: More on Siemens' `Three Formal Theories of Cultural Analogy', Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 6: 263-271.
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