The 'Grosetto workshop' was an event which broke new ground. It brought together for the first time an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers concerned with computational lexicography. These papers, selected from the workshop, have provided a baseline and a ref…
The new science of computational lexicology and lexicography has arisen through contact and collaboration between representatives of three hitherto distinct disciplines: lexicography, linguistics, and computer science. The Pisa International Summer Schools on Computational Lexic…
"For some time, historical lexicography has been suspended between the demands of traditional philology, modern metalexicography, and technical innovation. The essays in this compilation volume reflect the challenges associated with these demands as well as ways to overcome them…
"We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages-the front matter-and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English "works" and my book reproduces and examines for the first t…
This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.
"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know th…
