Quote of the day
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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)