Adam Kilgarriff

Adam Kilgarriff
A photo of Adam Kilgarriff
Kilgarriff in June 2014
Born(1960-02-12)12 February 1960
Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Died16 May 2015(2015-05-16) (aged 55)
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
Alma materCambridge University, University of Sussex
Known forSketch Engine, word sketches
SpouseGill Lamden
Children3
Scientific career
Fieldscorpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer lexicography
InstitutionsLexical Computing Limited, University of Leeds
ThesisPolysemy (1992)
Doctoral advisorGerald Gazdar, Roger Evans
Websitekilgarriff.co.uk

Adam Kilgarriff (12 February 1960 – 16 May 2015[1]) was a corpus linguist, lexicographer, and co-author of Sketch Engine.