Adam Kilgarriff’s Legacy to Computational Linguistics and Beyond Roger Evans?, Alexander Gelbukhy, Gregory Grefenstettez, Patrick Hanks}, Miloš Jakubícekˇ ♧, Diana McCarthy⊕, Martha Palmer~, Ted Pedersen/, Michael Rundell], Pavel Rychlý1, Serge Sharoff♤, David Tugwell ? University of Brighton,
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[email protected] Abstract. This year, the CICLing conference is dedicated to the memory of Adam Kilgarriff who died last year. 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 writ- ten 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. 1 Introduction Last year was marred by the loss of Adam Kilgarriff who during the last 27 years contributed greatly to the field of computational linguistics1, as well as to other fields of linguistics and to lexicography.