William Lamb is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.^[1]

He received a master's degree from in 1999 and a He was an External Examiner for Sabhal Mòr Ostaig between 2013 and 2017 and was involved in Scottish Gaelic spelling reform as a subject specialist reviewer for the Scottish Qualifications Authority in 2011 and 2012.^[1] He was the PI for a Napier grant to develop an "On-Line Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagger and Gold-Standard corpus of Scottish Gaelic."^[2]^[3] He also helped develop the DASG (Stòras na Gàidhlig) corpus.^[4]

He is currently on the steering committee of Faclair na Gàidhlig since 2012 and the Scottish Gaelic Text Society since 2016.^[1]

Publications

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Lamb, William. "A diachronic account of Gaelic news-speak: the development and expansion of a register." Scottish Gaelic Studies 19 (1999): 141-71.
Lamb, William. Scottish Gaelic speech and writing: Register variation in an endangered language. Vol. 16. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2008.
Lamb, William. Scottish Gaelic (2nd Edition). Retrieved 13 April 2017.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c Lamb, William. "William Lamb". www.ed.ac.uk. The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "IIDI - Projects - An On-Line Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagger and Gold-Standard..." www.iidi.napier.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "The Gaelic Part-of-Speech Tagger Project". www.ed.ac.uk. The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "Acknowledgements". www.dasg.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2017.