Adam Kilgarriff Quotes

Adam Kilgarriff was a corpus linguist, lexicographer and co-author of Sketch Engine.

✵ 12. February 1960 – 16. May 2015

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“It leaves me wanting to rejoice – isn’t language wonderful, that we can do all these different things with it!”

Adam Kilgarriff

in 'Odd one out' on his blog (31 January 2015) https://blog.kilgarriff.co.uk/?p=24

“I often think, if NLP people put as much effort into the training data as the algorithms, our systems would perform much better.”

Adam Kilgarriff

in Discussion on Corpora-list (2 February 2015) http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2015-February/021917.html

“… I examined the concept, 'word sense'. It was not found to be sufficiently well-defined to be a workable basic unit of meaning.”

Adam Kilgarriff

in I don't believe in word senses http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/1997-K-CHum-believe.pdf (1997), p. 25

“It's like the 'normalisation' discussion because in both cases we dream of a 'true message' that, in the NLG case, we generate from, and in the normalisation and analysis cases, we normalise/analyse to. Of course the 'true message' is a fantasy, and what we think it should be will depend on our particular goals in our particular context.”

Adam Kilgarriff

in Discussion on Corpora-list (5 March 2015) http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2015-March/022161.html

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