Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Geoffrey Sampson
Born: 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation standards for compiling corpora of ordinary usage of the English language.
Known for:
- Schools of linguistics (1980)
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (1985)
- English for the computer (1995)
- Empirical linguistics (2001)