Geoff Barnbrook has been a lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham since 1991 and received his PhD from there in 1995 for work on the grammar of definition sentences and their automatic analysis under the supervision of Professor John Sinclair.

He has been involved in a number of EC-funded research projects, including PAROLE/SIMPLE, and TELRI.

His main research interests are in contemporary and historical applications of corpus linguistics and lexicography, and his publications include Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language (1996, Edinburgh University Press).

List of recent publications.