Adam Kilgarriff is a research scientist working at the intersection of computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and dictionary-making. Following a PhD on "Polysemy" from Sussex University, he has worked at Longman Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, and the University of Brighton, and is now Director of two companies, Lexicography MasterClass (http://www.lexmasterclass.com/) and Lexical Computing Ltd (http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/) which provide software, training and consultancy in the research areas.