What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: John Sinclair set up the COBUILD project, pioneering a dictionary using ‘real-world’ text in 1987 Recorded plaque organisation: University of Birmingham.
John Sinclair was a British lexicographer who significantly advanced dictionary compilation techniques by initiating the COBUILD project, which utilized corpus data to reflect real-world language usage.
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