Adam Kilgarriff
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12 February 1960 Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Died | 16 May 2015 (aged 55) Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom bowel cancer |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer lexicography |
| Institutions | Lexical Computing Limited, University of Leeds |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University, University of Sussex |
| Thesis | Polysemy (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald Gazdar, Roger Evans |
| Known for | Sketch Engine, word sketches |
| Spouse | Gill Lamden |
| Children | Boris, Madeleine, Raphael |
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Adam Kilgarriff (12 February 1960 – 16 May 2015) was a corpus linguist, lexicographer and co-author of Sketch Engine.
His parents were booksellers. He spent one year as a volunteer in Kenya 1978–1979 then began studying at Cambridge University, graduating with a first class BA degree in philosophy and engineering in 1982. His first job was as a Housing Officer for the London and Quadrant Housing Trust. At the same time he studied at the South West London College. In 1987, he left his job and started an MSc in intelligent knowledge-based systems at the University of Sussex, from where he graduated the following year, continuing a DPhil in computational linguistics with thesis Polysemy (1992).
In 2008 he made a return trip to Kenya with his old friend Raphael. He was also a participant in the Hastings Half Marathon for many years.
In November 2014, he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer which he succumbed to in May 2015. After the diagnosis he started his own blog where he reflected on his experience with the disease and thoughts on language, corpus linguistics and life and the world in general.
He graduated from University of Sussex (PhD, 1992) and became a lecturer at the University of Brighton in 1995. Later he was a visiting research fellow in Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex and in School of Modern languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds. The partnership with B.T.S. Atkins (Sue Atkins) and Michael Rundell brought setting up his first company Lexicography MasterClass Ltd in 2002. This company provided consultancy and training in lexicography and dictionary production. Shortly after the retirement of Sue Atkins, the company was dissolved in 2012. In 2003, he started his own company Lexical Computing Limited delivering tools and services in corpus processing. He himself has been working as a lexicographer for a short period (1992–1995) at the Longman Dictionaries.
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