Geoffrey Sampson was born on 1944 and is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.
11 Facts About Geoffrey Sampson
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Geoffrey Sampson produces annotation standards for compiling corpora of ordinary usage of the English language.
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Geoffrey Sampson's work has been applied in automatic language-understanding software, and in writing-skills training.
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Geoffrey Sampson has analysed Ronald Coase's "theory of the firm" and the economic and political implications of e-business.
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Geoffrey Sampson holds three MA degrees, one each from Cambridge, Yale and Oxford.
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Geoffrey Sampson was awarded a doctorate by Cambridge under the special regulations; his published work was deemed to comprise "a significant contribution to scholarship".
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Geoffrey Sampson lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Lancaster and the University of Leeds before moving to Sussex in 1991.
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Geoffrey Sampson is widely known for academic papers criticising the linguistic nativist movement, including the arguments of proponents such as Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker.
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Geoffrey Sampson critically engaged with Pinker's 1994 book The Language Instinct, in his own book The 'Language Instinct' Debate, the first edition of which, published in 1997, was entitled Educating Eve.
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Geoffrey Sampson is politically active and was elected to Wealden District Council in 2001, serving until 2002 with the local Conservative Party branch.
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Geoffrey Sampson resigned this position after he was criticised by Labour Party and Liberal Democrat ministers and councillors for publishing on his website an article, There's Nothing Wrong With Racism, containing a number of racist claims.