Magnus Sahlgren (born 1 January 1973) is a Swedish

computational linguist Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

and guitarist.

Academic career

Magnus Sahlgren is known for his work on

Random indexing Random indexing is a dimensionality reduction method and computational framework for distributional semantics, based on the insight that very-high-dimensional vector space model implementations are impractical, that models need not grow in dimensi ...

applied to distributional semantics published through research projects at the

Swedish Institute of Computer Science RISE SICS (previously Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is a leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden, founded in 1985. It explores the digitalization of products, services and businesses. In ...

and later at Gavagai AB, the research company he co-founded in 2008. Sahlgren's dissertation The Word-Space Model was awarded the prize for the most prominent scholarly achievement of 2006 at the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities.

Musical career

Sahlgren was the

lead guitarist Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featured ...

of the

metal A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...

band

Lake of Tears Lake of Tears is a Swedish heavy metal music, heavy metal band originally formed in 1994, generally considered to play gothic metal/gothic rock and doom metal. However, their sound has expanded to include psychedelic rock and progressive rock e ...

, whom his name is most associated with, until 2009. He also played with Dismember from 1998 to 2003 and with

Tiamat In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat ( or , ) is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic '' Enûma Elish'', which translates as "when on high". She is referred to as a woman, an ...

during the recording of the acclaimed Wildhoney album in 1994. He helped the band achieve technical proficiency by helping with the songwriting and solos when he was a session artist. In 2004, he was accepted as a full-time member of Lake of Tears and since then his influences have been even more visible, notably on the album Moons and Mushrooms, on which he performs solos on every track.

External links

Sahlgren's publications at Google Scholar
* ttp://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Magnus_Sahlgren/ Sahlgren's discography at Encyclopedia Metallumbr>Sahlgren's discography at Metal Storm

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahlgren, Magnus 1973 births Living people Swedish heavy metal guitarists Swedish scientists Computational linguistics researchers Linguists from Sweden Dismember (band) members 21st-century Swedish guitarists