Geoffrey Sampson

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Geoffrey Sampson is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoffrey Sampson has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Language and Linguistics, 31 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Geoffrey Sampson's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (25 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (25 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers). Geoffrey Sampson is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (25 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (25 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers). Geoffrey Sampson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ghana and South Africa. Geoffrey Sampson's co-authors include William A. Gale, Bruce L. Derwing, Carol A. Chapelle, Geoffrey Leech, Diana McCarthy, Roger Garside, Fred D’Agostino, Eric Atwell, John M. Carroll and Zhiqun Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Language and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Geoffrey Sampson

86 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the microstructures of cognition. By David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, and the PDP Research Group. Vol. I, Foundations; Vol. II, Psychological and biological models. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 547; xii, 611.

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William Frawley United States

Stuart M. Shieber United States

Chu‐Ren Huang Hong Kong

Zellig S. Harris United States

Christiane Fellbaum United States

Gosse Bouma Netherlands

Aravind K. Joshi United States

Daniel Gildea United States

Nicholas Asher France

Marco Baroni Italy

William Frawley United States

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678 ×3.1

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Countries citing papers authored by Geoffrey Sampson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Geoffrey Sampson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Geoffrey Sampson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2018). The redundancy of self-organization as an explanation of English spelling. Language. 94(1). e43–e47. 2 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2014). Letters to Language. Language. 90(4). 785–785. 1 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2013). A counterexample to homophony avoidance. Diachronica. 30(4). 579–591. 16 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2013). Gladstone as linguist. Journal of Literary Semantics. 42(1). 1–29. 2 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2007). There is no language instinct. Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies. 35–63. 2 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2006). Love Songs of Early China. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2005). The "Language instinct" debate. Figshare. 62 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (2000). Where Should Annotation Stop. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 28–34. 1 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1998). Consistent annotation of speech-repair structures. Language Resources and Evaluation. 1279–1282. 1 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1997). Sistemas de escritura. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 15(6). 586–91; discussion 591. 5 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1995). English for the Computer. 81 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1995). English for the Computer: SUSANNE Corpus and Analytic Scheme. Figshare. 14 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1990). Review of Computational lexicography for natural language processing by Bran Boguraev and Ted Briscoe. Longman 1989.. Computational Linguistics. 16(2). 113–116. 8 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1987). Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the microstructures of cognition. By David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, and the PDP Research Group. Vol. I, Foundations; Vol. II, Psychological and biological models. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 547; xii, 611.. Language. 63(4). 871–886. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1981). Advantages of English Spelling. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 1–13.

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1976). The transformational-generative paradigm and modern linguistic theory . Ed. by E. F. K. Koerner. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, sub-series 4: Current issues in linguistic theory, 1.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1975. Pp. viii, 462. ƒ 50.00.. Language. 52(4). 961–966. 2 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1975). Natural Language as a Special Case of Programming Languages. 1 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1974). Is There a Universal Phonetic Alphabet?. Language. 50(2). 236–259. 8 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1970). The Reality of Linguistic Decoding. The Journal of Philosophy. 67(22). 961–969. 2 indexed citations

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Sampson, Geoffrey. (1970). On the Need for a Phonological Base. Language. 46(3). 586–586. 16 indexed citations

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