Sampson's book and associated computer files are indeed meeting a need. The material is already widely used and often mentioned by researchers in NLP.

Times Higher Educational Supplement

This book has been beautifully produced by the publisher, and is a well-written and meticulously detailed description of, and justification for, the Susanne scheme of analysis and annotation of natural English. It will be invaluable to linguistic scholars ... It is also indispensable to serious users of the Susanne corpus who are investigating linguistically complex issues within the Susanne texts.

E. Wilson, University of Kent, Axis 3:1

Many of its papers survey a wide range of different approaches and issues in computational linguistics, picking interesting ideas from here and there...Sampson's book and associated computer files are indeed meeting a need. The material is already widely used and often mentioned by researchers in NLP.

Times Higher Education Supplement