22-476: (Redirected from Kilgarriff ) Kilgariff or Kilgarriff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People [ edit ] Adam Kilgarriff (1960–2015), British corpus linguist Bernie Kilgariff (1923–2010), Australian politician Karen Kilgariff (born 1970), American actress and writer Michael Kilgarriff (born 1937), British actor Places [ edit ] Kilgarriff, County Cork ,
44-580: A London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborn's daughter. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor , the first publisher of Robinson Crusoe , for £ 2 282 9s 6d. Taylor's two shops in Paternoster Row , London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship , premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became
66-680: A civil parish in County Cork, Ireland Kilgariff, Northern Territory , a suburb in Australia [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Kilgariff . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kilgariff&oldid=1007665180 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
88-513: A continuous space of meanings largely defined by the contexts in which a word appears. His paper "I don't believe in word senses" (1997) became soon a state-of-the-art argumentation on the topic. The work on polysemy brought Kilgarriff to text corpora and corpus linguistics to which he devoted the rest of his career. He was one of the founding members and former chair (2006–2008) of the Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus (SIGWAC) of
110-633: 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
132-582: A public company in 1948. Longman was acquired by the global publisher Pearson , owner of Penguin and The Financial Times , in 1968. Longman's medical lists was merged with other Pearson subsidiaries to form Churchill Livingstone in 1972. Also in 1972, Mark Longman, last of the Longman family to run the company, died. Longman continued to exist as an imprint of Pearson , under the name 'Pearson Longman'. Pearson Longman specialized in English, including English as
154-539: A work on the History of the Life and Times of Edward III (1873). In 1863, the firm took over the business of John William Parker , and with it Fraser's Magazine , and the publication of the works of John Stuart Mill and James Anthony Froude ; while in 1890 they incorporated with their own all the publications of the old firm of Rivington , established in 1711. The family control of the firm (later 'Longmans, Green & Co.')
176-486: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adam Kilgarriff 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
198-568: Is owned by Pearson PLC . Since 1968, Longman has been used primarily as an imprint by Pearson's Schools business. The Longman brand is also used for the Longman Schools in China and the Longman Dictionary . The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 18 June 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol . Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn,
220-467: The Edinburgh Review , which was started in 1802. In 1802 appeared the first part of Rees's Cyclopædia , edited by Abraham Rees . This was completed in 39 volumes plus 6 volumes of plates in 1819. In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh , for which he was paid £ 3 000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of
242-467: The Edinburgh Review . They issued in 1829 Lardner 's Cabinet Encyclopaedia , and in 1832 McCulloch 's Commercial Dictionary . Thomas Norton Longman died on 29 August 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas (1804–1879) and William (1813–1877), in control of the business in Paternoster Row. Their first success was the publication of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome , which was followed in 1841 by
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#1732883746673264-854: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and also one of the founding organizers of SENSEVAL . In the years 2000–2004, he was the president of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the ACL. Kilgarriff was an active member of the European Association for Lexicography (member of board 2002–2006), consultant for major publishing houses and reviewer for journals and conferences around that field. He has been working on methods for automatic acquisition of large web corpora and quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis (text genres, corpus similarity, homogeneity and heterogeneity). His work on corpora
286-469: The firm became T. and T. Longman. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman became sole proprietor. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. In 1794, he took Owen Rees as a partner; in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice. Longman had three sons. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman (1771–1842) succeeded to the business. In 1804, two more partners, including Edward Orme & Thomas Hurst, were admitted, and
308-456: The following year, Richmal Mangnall 's Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People was purchased, and went through 84 editions by 1857. About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey 's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads , from Joseph Cottle of Bristol. He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge , Southey and Scott , and acted as London agent for
330-470: The former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811; in 1824, the title of the firm was changed to 'Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green'. A document of 1823 "Grant of Land in the Concan" printed by the firm under this name shows the name change was from 1823 or earlier. In 1799, Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray 's English Grammar , which had an annual sale of about 50 000 copies. In
352-520: The issue of the first two volumes of his History of England , which after a few years had a sale of 40 000 copies. The two brothers were well known for their literary talent. Thomas Longman edited a beautifully illustrated edition of the New Testament , and William Longman was the author of several important books, among them a History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St Paul (1869) and
374-468: The publishing house premises. Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers 's Cyclopaedia (1728). Longman himself was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary (1746–1755). In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman (1730–1797), and the title of
396-549: 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. His early research career was closely associated with word sense disambiguation (PhD thesis above). Kilgarriff argued against discrete classification of word senses and saw word senses rather as
418-527: 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
440-558: 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
462-529: Was closely connected with their application for computer lexicography . Kilgarriff invented the notion of word sketches , one-page summaries of a word's collocation behaviour in particular grammatical relations, which represent the core part of the Sketch Engine corpus management system. Longman Longman , also known as Pearson Longman , is a publishing company founded in 1724 in London, England, which
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#1732883746673484-518: Was continued by Thomas Norton Longman, son of Thomas Longman. In 1884 the firm employed John William Allen as an educationalist. Allen grew the firm's educational list, including textbooks he wrote himself. He later inherited the shares of W. E. Green and became a shareholder in 1918. In December 1940, Longman's Paternoster Row offices were destroyed in The Blitz , along with most of the company's stock. The company survived this crisis, however, and became
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