ABSTRACT
Lexicography is traditionally defined as the branch of applied linguistics concerned with the design and construction of lexicons for practical use. Or, as defined by Hartmann and James (2000), ‘The professional activity and academic field concerned with dictionaries and other reference works’. Nowadays, lexicography has developed into a relatively independent cross-discipline involved with linguistics, language acquisition, cognition, cultural anthropology, terminography, translation studies, statistics, computer science, and technology, etc. The combination of lexicography and computer technology resulted in a specific area of study, computational lexicography.
