TY - JOUR
AU - Hockey, Susan
AB -  Antonio Zampolli 1937­2003 Antonio Zampolli died in a tragic fire in his home in Pisa on 22 August 2003. Zampolli had been a leading figure in the ALLC ever since the Association began. He was a member of the first committee and, having served several terms on the committee, in 1983 he became the Association's President and `father-figure' and remained in that role until his untimely death. Zampolli started his career as a research assistant on Father Busa's monumental project on the Index Thomisticus, and, although his career soon developed to concentrate more on computational linguistics, he never abandoned his interest and support of literary and humanities computing. He and his group in Pisa took a leading role in applying computational linguistics methodologies to humanities texts and he was one of very few people who could see the full implications of applying techniques such as morphological analysis, lemmatization, and retrieval using lexical databases to humanities source material. He was also fully aware of the limitations of these tools and he and his group continued to strive for better technologies. He took every opportunity to promote the relevance of computational linguistics to literary and humanities computing. The convergence of 
TI - Obituary
JF - Literary and Linguistic Computing
DO - 10.1093/llc/19.4.427
DA - 2004-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/obituary-m84lMTSFpL
SP - 427
EP - 430
VL - 19
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -