Directors

Adam Kilgarriff is company founder and owner. He is a corpus and computational linguist. Following a PhD at Sussex University on word meaning, he worked at Longman Dictionaries and Brighton University prior to setting up LCL. He has published widely in the areas of word senses, corpora and lexicography and given keynote lectures at a number of conferences. He organised the first SENSEVAL competition for the evaluation of word sense disambiguation systems. He has chaired the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Groups on the Lexicon (2000-2004) and Web as Corpus (2006-2009; founding chair), he was also a European Association for Lexicography board member 2002-06. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.

Pavel Rychlý is a computer scientist and computational linguist. His thesis was on optimal designs for corpus query systems, and he has, since then, been developing, first, the Manatee system, and since 2003, the Sketch Engine. He is a lecturer at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.