Sad to learn that #YorickWilks has passed away - I did not know him well, but I encountered him off and on over the years, and it's fair to say he had a pretty significant influence on my #NLProc thinking, especially my on and off and on again interest in building and using dictionaries. He also had a sincere appreciation for our history, which I think is quite important and sometimes overlooked. His #ACL Lifetime Achievement Award remarks are a nice example of this : https://aclanthology.org/J08-4001.pdf