Sverker Johansson
Swedish physicist and Wikipedian
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Lars Sverker Johansson is a Swedish physicist, linguist, textbook author and university professor. He created Lsjbot, a Wikipedia bot.
Sverker Johansson | |
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.jpg) Johansson in November 2008 | |
| Alma mater | University of Lund University of Gothenburg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, linguistics |
Biography
Sverker Johansson is a doctor of philosophy in physics and a master of philosophy in linguistics. He received his doctorate in physics in 1990 on a thesis in particle physics on μμ and eμ pair production at the experiment HELIOS at the collider SPS and software development for the experiment DELPHI at the collider LEP, both experiments at CERN. He has subsequently worked as a researcher in several fields, mainly neutrino-related particle physics with the AMANDA experiment but also in the origin of language.
During his career, he has mainly worked at the University of Jönköping.
Johansson's book Origins of Language, Constraints of Hypotheses, and Convergence Evidence in Language and Communication Studies, published in 2005, has been reviewed by the Journal of Linguistics.[1][2][3]
In 2011, Johannson started making bots on Wikipedia, which have since made millions of edits.[4][5]
In 2012, he presented the theory that Neanderthals used language in "Essay on Neanderthal Language".[6]
In 2014, a new article creation project was launched with bot, with the aim of producing basic articles about all the world's locations and geographical places. As a result, (up to 2017) a further two million articles have been created for the Swedish version of Wikipedia and even more for the Cebuano version.[7]