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Geoffrey Sampson

Communications

#119

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#234

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Linguistics

#53

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#73

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According to Wikipedia, 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. His work has been applied in automatic language-understanding software, and in writing-skills training. He has also analysed Ronald Coase's "theory of the firm" and the economic and political implications of e-business.

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Word frequency distributions (2002) (378)
Good-Turing Frequency Estimation Without Tears (1995) (343)
Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (1986) (266)
The myth of diminishing firms (2003) (230)
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics (2003) (220)
Electronic Business (2008) (211)
English for the Computer: The SUSANNE Corpus and Analytic Scheme (1995) (202)
Language complexity as an evolving variable (2009) (148)
Schools of Linguistics (1980) (146)
The computational analysis of English : a corpus-based approach (1989) (136)
The "Language instinct" debate (2005) (96)
A test of the leaf-ancestor metric for parse accuracy (2003) (81)
English for the computer (1995) (78)
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: GROWTH OR LEARNING? (1989) (69)
The form of language (1975) (69)
Schools of linguistics: Competition and evolution (1980) (62)
Exploring the richness of the stimulus (2002) (58)
Grammar without grammaticality (2013) (57)
A non-nativist account of language universals (1979) (53)
A proposal for improving the measurement of parse accuracy (2000) (49)
A Stochastic Approach to Parsing (1986) (47)
The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory (1976) (47)
The single mother condition (1975) (43)
Linguistic universals as evidence for empiricism (1978) (43)
Liberty and language (1979) (43)
Natural language analysis by stochastic optimization: a progress report on Project APRIL (1990) (41)
Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline (2004) (36)
Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate (1997) (35)
16 On the Need for a Phonological Base (1970) (33)
A Note on Wang's 'Phonological Features of Tone' (1969) (27)
Quantifying the shift towards empirical methods (2005) (26)
Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems (1994) (25)
Depth in English grammar (1997) (25)
Complexity in language and in law (2014) (25)
A counterexample to homophony avoidance (2013) (23)
The indivisibility of words (1979) (23)
How Fully Does a Machine-Usable Dictionary Cover English Text? (1989) (21)
A myth about centre-embedding (1982) (21)
Thoughts on Two Decades of Drawing Trees (2003) (21)
What was transformational grammar?: A review of: Noam Chomsky, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1979) (17)
Grammar Without Grammaticality: Growth and Limits of Grammatical Precision (2013) (16)
IS THERE A UNIVERSAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (1974) (16)
Review of Computational lexicography for natural language processing by Bran Boguraev and Ted Briscoe. Longman 1989. (1990) (15)
Definitional and human constraints on structural annotation of English* (2008) (14)
The structure of children’s writing: moving from spoken to adult written norms (2003) (13)
The empirical trend: Ten years on (2013) (12)
Limits to annotation precision (2003) (12)
Regional variation in the English verb qualifier system (2002) (12)
Definitional, personal, and mechanical constraints on part of speech annotation performance (2005) (12)
The role of taxonomy in language engineering (2000) (11)
One fact needs one explanation (1975) (10)
Project APRIL: A Progress Report (1988) (10)
The irrelevance of transformational omnipotence (1973) (9)
A Chinese phonological enigma (2015) (8)
Consistent annotation of speech-repair structures (1998) (6)
Liberalism and Nozick's ‘Minimal State’ (1978) (6)
Whistleblowing for health (2012) (5)
Do Creoles prove what “ordinary” languages don't? (1984) (5)
THE REALITY OF COMPOUND IDEOGRAPHS (2013) (5)
Hanoi dorsal finals (1969) (5)
Theory Choice in a Two-level Science* (1975) (5)
POPPERIAN LANGUAGE-ACQUISITION UNDEFEATED (1980) (5)
There1, there2 (1972) (5)
IN DEFENCE OF TURING (1973) (5)
An empirical hypothesis about natural semantics (1976) (4)
The redundancy of self-organization as an explanation of English spelling (2018) (4)
Stratificational Grammar: A Definition and an Example (1970) (4)
Sistemas de escritura. Análisis lingüístico (1997) (4)
Rigid strings and flaky snowflakes (2015) (4)
Chomsky's evidence against Chomsky's theory (1980) (4)
There is no language instinct (2007) (4)
Typology and the study of writing systems (2016) (4)
The Concept ‘Semantic Representation’ (1973) (3)
Fallible Rationalism and Machine Translation (1983) (3)
The Need for Grammatical Stocktaking (1993) (3)
Review of From grammar to science: new foundations for general linguistics by Victor H. Yngve. John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996. (1998) (3)
The death of learned journals (2006) (3)
Evolutionary Language Understanding (1996) (3)
Elements of Mathematical Linguistics (1985) (3)
The CHRISTINE Corpus stage 1 published 1999 release 2 published 2000. (1996) (3)
From phonemic spelling to distinctive spelling (2018) (3)
Gladstone as linguist (2013) (3)
The Reality of Linguistic Decoding (1970) (3)
Writing systems : methods for recording language (2013) (2)
Letters to Language (2014) (2)
A proposal for constraining deletion (1972) (2)
Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture and why it shouldn't (2007) (2)
Love Songs of Early China (2006) (2)
A two-way exchange between syntax and corpora (2011) (2)
Natural Language and the Paradox of the Liar (1972) (1)
An end to allegiance : individual freedom and the new politics (1984) (1)
Law for Computing Students (2009) (1)
Jerry Norman, Chinese . (Cambridge Language Surveys.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 292. (1989) (1)
Advantages of English Spelling (1981) (1)
THE SIMPLICITY OF LINGUISTIC THEORIES (1976) (1)
One man’s norm is another’s metaphor: Patrick Hanks: Lexical analysis. Norms and exploitations (2013) (1)
Parallel optimization of tree structures for natural language parsing (1991) (1)
A NOTE ON BROADBENT'S DEFENCE OF EMPIRICAL PSYCHOLOGY (1974) (1)
Reply to Longa (1999) (1)
An unaddressed phonological contradiction (2019) (1)
The Politics of Meaning (1981) (1)
D. Terence Langendoen, The Study of Syntax: the Generative-Transformational Approach to the Structure of American English . (Transatlantic series in linguistics.) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1969. Pp. 174. (1970) (1)
Where Should Annotation Stop? (2000) (1)
Review of Cl2003, the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2004) (1)
Economic growth and linguistic theory (2014) (1)
Natural Language As A Special Case Of Programming Languages (1975) (1)
The logic of natural language: By Fred Sommers, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1982 (1985) (0)
Letters to Language (2010) (0)
Jerrold J. Katz, Linguistic philosophy: the underlying reality of language and its philosophical import . New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Pp. viii + 189. (1973) (0)
The role of taxonomy in language engineering - Discussion (2000) (0)
Chapter 14. William Gladstone as linguist (2013) (0)
Review of The acquisition of syntactic knowledge by Robert C. Berwick. The MIT Press 1985. (1986) (0)
NOTES AND REVIEWS (2007) (0)
On David Miller, “Socialism and the Market” (Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1977). (1980) (0)
Human rationality: Misleading linguistic analogies (1981) (0)
S. K. Shaumyan, Applicational grammar as a semantic theory of natural language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 184. (1978) (0)
Definitional and human constraints on parsing performance (0)
Chapter 12. Testing a metric for parse accuracy (2013) (0)
Chapter 2. The bounds of grammatical refinement (2013) (0)
Book reviews (1974) (0)
A note on ‘Liberalism’ and the ‘New Right’ (1981) (0)
W. J. M. Levelt, Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics (3 vols.). (Janua linguarum, series minor, 192.) The Hague: Mouton, 1974. Pp. x+ 143, Viii+ 194, viii+ 206. (1976) (0)
Can we know how language began (2014) (0)
The Linguistics Delusion (2017) (0)
Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater. 2016. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing (2017) (0)
A DILEMMA DEFENDED (1978) (0)
Chapter 40. Grammar without grammaticality (2013) (0)
Chapter 5. Replies to our critics (2013) (0)
Chapter 3. Where should annotation stop (2013) (0)
Chapter 10. Simple grammars and new grammars (2013) (0)
Chapter 13. Linguistics empirical and unempirical (2013) (0)
That strange realm called theory (1989) (0)
Grammatical depth: a rejoinder (1999) (0)
Critical Notices/Etudes critiques (2010) (0)
Yoshinori Sagisaka, Nick Campbell and Norio Higuchi (eds.), Computing Prosody: Computational Models for Processing Spontaneous Speech. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0-387-94804-X, xvii+401pp. (1998) (0)
Florian Coulmas, The writing systems of the world . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 302. (1990) (0)
The resurgence of metaphor: Review of Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and thought☆ (1981) (0)
Letter to the Editor: Grammatical Depth: A Rejoinder (1999) (0)
Natural Language as a Special Case of Programming Languages (1975) (0)
Sampson: Economic and Social Implications (2006) (0)
Reply to Graham (1977) (0)
The Unicode ® Standard Version 9 . 0 – Core Specification (2008) (0)
Reply to the Comments (2015) (0)
Review of Elements of mathematical linguistics by A.V. Gladldj and I.A. Mel'cuk. Mouton Publishers 1983. (1985) (0)
Chapter 11. The case of the vanishing perfect (2013) (0)
Dieter Wunderlich, Foundations of linguistics. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 22) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. Xvi+360. (1980) (0)
Review of Computational tools for doing linguistics by Gerald Gazdar. Mouton. (1987) (0)
Barry J. Blake, Case. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521 44661 9 (paperback), 0521 44114 5 (hardback). xvii + 229 pp. (1996) (0)
Susan Conrad and Douglas Biber (eds.), Variation in English: multi-dimensional studies. Studies in Language and Linguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education/Longman, 2001. Pp. viii + 255. Hardback £19.99, ISBN 0 582 30741 4 (2003) (0)
Linguistic nativism: What acquisition rate would count in favour of learning? (1982) (0)
Chomskyan Linguistics: Aims, Achievements, and Prospects (1975) (0)
R. Mitton, English spelling and the computer . (Studies in Language and Linguistics.) London: Longman, 1996. Pp. x + 207. Hardback £35, ISBN 0 582 23479 4; paperback £12.99, ISBN 0 582 23478 6. (1997) (0)
Can language be explained functionally? (1972) (0)
Vyvyan Evans. 2015. The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning (2016) (0)
How Many Possible Trade Names are There? (2016) (0)
A mixed system: Japanese writing (2015) (0)
Sidney Greenbaum (ed.), Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-823582-8, xvi+286 pages. (1998) (0)
ReviewBasic problems in methodology and linguistics: R.E. Butts, J. Hintikka (eds.), University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol. 11. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1977. x + 321 pp. Dfl. 100.00 (1979) (0)
Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, and Richard Winski (eds). Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems. Mouton de Gruyter. 1997. ISBN 3-11-015366-1. DM 298. xxx+886 pages. (1999) (0)
Sidney Greenbaum (ed.), Acceptability in language . Contributions to the sociology of language, no. 17. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Pp. X+213. (1979) (0)
Stochastic Optimization of a Probabilistic Language Model (1994) (0)
Chapter 9. Child writing and discourse organization (2013) (0)
John Woldemar Cowan, The complete Lojban language. Fairfax, VA: The Logical Language Group, Inc., 1997. Pp. x+608. (1999) (0)
The Newsletter of the European Network in Human Language Technologies Spring (0)
Chapter 8. The structure of children’s writing (2013) (0)
How much of an ancient language is invisible? (2019) (0)
Follick's achievements in urging consideration of foreign learners and pushing the reform question as far as a (withdrawn) (2008) (0)
Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society (2008) (0)
Chapter 7. Demographic correlates of speech complexity (2013) (0)
Chapter 6. Grammatical description meets spontaneous speech (2013) (0)
e.biz: The Anatomy of Electronic Business (2003) (0)

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Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate