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Adam Kilgarriff’s Legacy to Computational Linguistics and Beyond

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The 2016 CICLing conference was dedicated to the memory of Adam Kilgarriff who died the year before. Adam leaves behind a tremendous scientific legacy and those working in computational linguistics, other fields of linguistics and lexicography are indebted to him. This paper is a summary review of some of Adam’s main scientific contributions. It is not and cannot be exhaustive. It is written by only a small selection of his large network of collaborators. Nevertheless we hope this will provide a useful summary for readers wanting to know more about the origins of work, events and software that are so widely relied upon by scientists today, and undoubtedly will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In this paper, natural language processing (NLP) is used synonymously with computational linguistics.

  2. 2.

    Like Oxford, the University of Sussex, where Adam undertook his doctoral training, uses DPhil rather than PhD as the abbreviation for its doctoral degrees.

  3. 3.

    The company he founded is Lexical Computing Ltd. He was also a partner – with Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell – in another company, Lexicography MasterClass, which provides consultancy and training and runs the Lexicom workshops in lexicography and lexical computing; http://www.lexmasterclass.com/.

  4. 4.

    This paper is perhaps Adam’s most influential piece, having been reprinted in three different collections since its original publication.

  5. 5.

    The implication that Adam did believe in “word senses” is controversial. There are co-authors of this article in disagreement about Adam’s beliefs on word senses. Whatever Adam’s beliefs were, we are indebted to him for amplifying the debate [13, 30] and for opening our eyes to other possibilities.

  6. 6.

    In fact, the title is a quote which Adam attributes to Sue Atkins.

  7. 7.

    The Sketch Engine, described in Sect. 6, in particular is an incredibly valuable resource that is used regularly at Colorado for revising English VerbNet class memberships and developing PropBank frame files for several languages.

  8. 8.

    See Fig. 1, below.

  9. 9.

    Working papers can be found online at http://wackybook.sslmit.unibo.it.

  10. 10.

    http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk/.

  11. 11.

    https://sigwac.org.uk/.

  12. 12.

    Personal communication from Adam to Serge Sharoff.

  13. 13.

    Other examples include his eagerness to encourage participants in evaluations such as Senseval, reminding people to focus on analysis rather than who came top [42] and in his company’s aim of ‘corpora for all’.

  14. 14.

    See http://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/.

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    Roger Evans

  2. CIC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

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    Gregory Grefenstette

  4. University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

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