Lexicography

„Perhaps the simplest explanation of lexicography is that it is a scholarly discipline that involves compiling, writing, or editing dictionaries. Lexicography is widely considered an independent scholarly discipline, though it is a subfield within linguistics. In order to better understand lexicography, it may help to know what a lexicon is. Lexicon is a term used in linguistics to indicate the archive of lexemes. Lexemes are abstract, minimal units in a language that link related forms of a word together.”
[http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-lexicography.htm]

„Computational Lexicology is the use of computers in the study of the lexicon. It has been more narrowly described by others (Amsler, 1980) as the use of computers in the study of machine-readable dictionaries. It is distinguished from Computational Lexicography, which more properly would be the use of computers in the construction of dictionaries, though some researchers have used Computational Lexicography as synonymous with Computational Lexicology.”
[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Computational_Lexicology]

In these quotations you can get a draft picture of what is Lexicography and its importance, and ofcourse Computational Lexigraphy / Lexicology. The main idea of Lexigraphy is clear but the idea of computational one is a little bit tricky in my humble opinion. Our world and our limits expand exponentially thus we may trick ourselfs with the so-called digital dream that we wish to live and so we do at the moment. The idea is very bright to enhance scholars with computer support, but as our technology gets more complex the more its vulnerable.
I will introduce some relevant and related links.
University Course Discription:
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/giveabs.php%3F6.html
„This course introduces to the field of Computational Lexicography, its
basic notions and methods, and its impact for Natural Language
Processing.
 Existing lexical resources should be maintained, standardized and used
flexibly. For less-studied languages, large scale resources still have to
be built from corpora and from the web.”

Publications:

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/?view=usa&ci=9780199277704
„This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline.”

A really basic publication that i found fundamental in the topic of Lexicography. Sadly its so straight forward that i can barely make any comment on it.

Journals:

http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
World-wide recognized journal on present topic of lexicography categorized by year for better browsing.

Online Dictionaries

Before linking and evaluating dictionaries i’d like to point out some of my thoughts of them.
I have been using online or e-dictionaries for a couple of years and i tried out alot of them with the hope of searching and expanding my vocabulary. In gods name, some online dictionaries are godsend for quick search, i even have several dictionaries on my mobile phone. Besides the benefits of these kind of dictionaries my emotional opinion is unshackable, the „oldschool” written type dictionaries are still a little bit above. The main reasons behind it are the real physical connection with the „knowledge” , the feeling of sitting and searching on your own...gives you a feeling of doing something not just typing and letting something work instead of you. The next online dictionaries are so far the best ones i’ve used.
http://szotar.sztaki.hu/index.hu.jhtml
http://www.orosz-szotar.hu/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

The site of Morphologic
http://www.morphologic.hu/
This site offers considerable oportunities for those whose aim is improving and broadening their knowledge of English. The most relevant links providing enormous help are electronic dictionaries, machine translations, proofing tools, software localization. Those learners who do their best to develop their language knowledge find useful products on this homepage. Firstly, the most beneficial dictionaries are exhibited, which can be bought in a downloadable version or in a paper box version. Among these products Akadémiai MobiMouse versions are the most essential ones including MoBiMouse 3.0.
Books and dissertations on Lexicography and Computational Lexicography
http://www.routledgelinguistics.com/books/Lexicography-isbn9780415231732
The title of this book is Lexicography. An Introduction by Howard Jackson.
„This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries.
Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and parliament, and referred to by crossword addicts and Scrabble players alike. Lexicography provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential references.”
The book opens with an Introduction explaining the most relevant terms used in lexicography and offering summaries, books for further reading. For example, the meaning of ‘word’ is exactly described as the starting point of the discussion. The second chapter contains the basic facts about words and their origin. Being an introduction to the topic, it has simple language. The author examines dictionaries having wide-spread use such as Longman or Oxford dictionaries. I think this book provides an excellent introduction to the study of this subject.

http://linguistics.osu.edu/research/publications/dissertations/files/godby2002.pdf

The title of the dissertation is A Computational Study of Lexicalized Noun Phrases in English.
“This study develops and evaluates a linguistically natural computational method for recognizing lexicalized noun phrases in a large corpus of English language engineering text by synthesizing the insights of studies in traditional linguistics and computational linguistics. From scholarship in theoretical linguistics, the analysis adopts the perspective that lexicalized noun phrases represent the names of concepts that are important to a community of speakers and have survived a single context of use.”