Geoffrey Sampson

Career

Birth and Civil Status

• Born in 1944 at Broxbourne, Herts.
• UK citizen

Current Employment

I am a professor at the University of Sussex, where I work in the Department of Informatics. For more information about my working life, see under “Profession” in my Life page.

Address

Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Falmer
BRIGHTON BN1 9QJ, England

Degrees, Professional Qualifications, etc.

• MA (Cambridge); MA (Yale); MA (Oxford, by incorporation)
• PhD (Cambridge, under the special regulations)
• FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts)
• FBCS (Fellow of the British Computer Society)
• CITP (Chartered Information Technology Professional)
• FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

Education

• Bristol Grammar School, 1952–62
• St John’s College, University of Cambridge, 1962–5
  Scholar of the College
  1st class honours, Parts I and II of Oriental Studies Tripos
  Pass with Distinction, Oral Examination in Mandarin Chinese
• Yale University, 1965–7 and 1968–9
  English-Speaking Union Fellow
  studying in Departments of Linguistics and Engineering & Applied Science

Employment History

• Research Fellow in Vietnamese, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 1967–8
• Fellow, Queen’s College, University of Oxford, 1969–72
• Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1972–4
• Lecturer, from 1976 Reader, University of Lancaster, 1974–84
  Founder member, Unit for Computer Research on English Language
• Professor of Linguistics, University of Leeds, 1985–90
  Founder Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech
• Self-employed language engineering consultant, 1990–1
  — major clients:
  • British Telecom Research Labs (now BT Advanced Communications Technology Centre)
  • Economic & Social Research Council
• Reader, from 1999 Professor, in the Department of Informatics (previously Computer Science & AI), University of Sussex, 1991–
  Department Chairman, 1993–96
  Director, Centre for Advanced Software Applications, 1991–6

External Activities

• Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Sémantiques et Cognitives, Geneva, 1980–1
• Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, 1982
• Consultant, Research Initiative in Pattern Recognition, Royal Signals & Radar Establishment (now Qinetiq), 1989–90
• Participant in the US/EU-sponsored Text Encoding Initiative (early 1990s)
• Panelist, “Ask-a-Linguist” service, 1997–
• Executive Board member, ELSNET — the European “Network of Excellence” in Human Language Technologies, 1998–
  — responsible for its magazine ELSNews (ended 2004)
• Conservative member of Wealden District Council, 2001–2

Geoffrey Sampson

last changed 19 Jul 2008