Quote of the day
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
Geoffrey Sampson
Born: 1944 (age 81)
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)