Adam Kilgarriff
Adam Kilgarriff was a corpus linguist, lexicographer, and co-author of Sketch Engine.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Hastings
- Educated at
- University of Sussex
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gerald Gazdar
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Trending topics shown first"I often think, if NLP people put as much effort into the training data as the algorithms, our systems would perform much better."
"It leaves me wanting to rejoice – isn’t language wonderful, that we can do all these different things with it!"
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Timeline
1960
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Died
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