Table of Contents

1: Editor's Introduction
Part I Metalexicography, Macrostructure, Microstructure, and the Contribution of Linguistic Theory
2: Samuel Johnson (edited by Jack Lynch): The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
3: Sue Atkins: Theoretical Lexicography and its Relation to Dictionary-Making
4: Juri Apresjan: Principles of Systematic Lexicography
Part II On Corpus Design
5: Douglas Biber: Representativeness in Corpus Design
6: Gregory Grefenstette and Adam Kilgarriff: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus
Part III On Lexicographical Evidence
7: Charles J. Fillmore: 'Corpus Linguistics' or 'Computer-Aided Armchair Linguistics'
Part IV On Word Senses and Polysemy
8: Patrick Hanks: Do Word Meanings Exist?
9: Adam Kilgarriff: I Don't Believe in Word Senses
10: Penny Stock: Polysemy
part V On Collocations, Idioms, and Dictionaries
11: Anthony P. Cowie: Phraseology
12: Thierry Fontenelle: Using a Bilingual Dictionary to Create Semantic Networks
Part VI On Definitions
13: Dwight Bolinger: Defining the Indefinable
14: Michael Rundell: More Than One Way to Skin A Cat: Why Full-Sentence Definitions Have Not Been Universally Adopted
Part VII On Examples
15: Batia Laufer: Corpus-Based Versus Lexicographer Examples in Comprehension and Production of New Words
Part VIII On Grammar and Usage in Dictionaries
16: Michael Rundell: Recent Trends in English Pedagogical Lexicography
Part IX On Bilingual Lexicography
17: Sue Atkins: Then and Now: Competence and Performance in 35 Years of Lexicography
18: Alain Duval: Equivalence in Bilingual Dictionaries
Part X On Tools for Lexicographers
19: Ken W. Church and Patrick Hanks: Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography
20: Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychly, Pavel Smrz, and David Tugwell: The Sketch Engine
21: Gregory Grefenstette: The Future of Linguistics and Lexicographers: Will There be Lexicographers in the Year 3000?
Part XI On Semantic Networks and Wordnets
22: George Miller, Richard Beckwith, Christiane Fellbaum, Derek Goss, and Katherine J. Miller: Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database
Part XII On Dictionary Use
23: Sue Atkins and Krista Varantola: Monitoring Dictionary Use
References
Index

About the Author

Thierry Fontenelle is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft's Natural Language Group, where he works on the creation of dictionaries for proofing tools and natural language processing. He received his PhD from the University of Liège in 1995. In the 1990s, he collaborated on two bilingual dictionaries published by Cambridge University Press and managed an international project dealing with the extraction of collocations from dictionaries and corpora. His
research interests include computational lexicography for natural language processing and proofing tools. He is also Past President of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) and an Associate
Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography.

Reviews

...fascinating reading for people like me, who feel at home on lexicographical territory. The great merit of the editor, Thierry Fontenelle, is that he compiled a reader's digest from the huge mountain of publications in congress proceedings, in magazines and in books. Rik Schutz, Kernerman Dictionary News (translated from French)...a carefully-selected set of texts ...which is valuable to anybody who wishes to understand lexicography and to think about the future directions of the field. Together with Atkins and Rundell's Guide, the set will be an excellent introduction to the methodology and current practice of lexicography, opening vistas onto the creation of the dictionaries of the future. Geoffrey Williams, Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee ...this reader is a fine selection, up-to-date, well presented and documented. Reinhard Hartmann, The International Journal of Lexicography