The present paper deals with a new approach to teaching lexicography at the university level that has been developed at Moscow State University, Russia. It consists in presenting all three academic subjects, i.e. Dictionary Use, Lexicology, Lexicography as a triad in the university curriculum, the course in lexicography being the concluding part of the triad. The structure and the content of th...

This article intends to give an overview of the lexicographic scene in Estonia from the perspective of modern lexicography, i.e. e-lexicography. We have been developing our in-house Dictionary Writing System EELex for some time already. However, the modern lexicography expects more: the multifunctionality of the database, special needs of the specific user, etc. I will briefly characterise some...

The marriage of computers and the OED enhances end user access and simplifies basic publishing needs, but computerization can also result in more effective lexicography. Computerized lexicography has an important side benefit in the development of new information products. We briefly describe lexicographical activity as it was conducted on the Supplements for the OED and explore some possibilit...

Lexicography and terminography are specialised professions concerned with the compilation and editing of dictionaries. The lexicographer documents the words in the vocabulary of the general language whereas the terminographer documents the terminology of specific subject fields and domains. The terminographer works with a more restricted register than the general lexicographer, but from a holis...

Lothar Lemnitzer, Laurent Romary, Andreas Witt. Representing human and machine dictionaries in Markup languages. Rufus Gouws and Ulrich Heid andWolfgang Schweickard and Herbert Ersnt Wiegand. HSK Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Supplementary volume: Recent developments with special focus on computational lexicography, 5.4, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.1195 1208, 2013. <inr...

Lexicography has much to contribute to the information and knowledge society. The very essence of lexicography is its capacity to provide quick and easy access to data from which information needed by different types of users in different types of social situations can be retrieved. In this respect, the article discusses the concepts of information and knowledge related to lexicographic theory....