Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson
Born	1944; Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
Nationality	British
Known for	The 'Language Instinct' Debate
	Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics, Computing, Economics
Institutions	London School of Economics; University of Lancaster; University of Leeds; University of Sussex;

Geoffrey Sampson (born 1944) is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation standards for compiling corpora (databases) 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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