Jean Véronis

Jean Véronis (3 June 1955 – 8 September 2013) was a French linguist, computer scientist and blogger, and a research professor at Aix-Marseille University. His research interests included natural language processing, text mining and standardisation. He was a founder of the field that is now called digital humanities.

In 2006, his blog was listed among the 15 most influential by Le Monde. Provided by Wikipedia