Lexicographer

A Lexicographer is a linguist who can perform lexicographical tasks (such as to compile a lexical database).

• Example(s):
  • those hired by the OED.
  • a Business Rules Analyst.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Annotator.
• See: Lexicography.

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References

2016

• The Economist. (2016). “Lexicography unbound - Dictionaries have found their ideal format."
  • QUOTE: … lexicographers do not think of their subject in this way at all. The decision to impose a page-count on a dictionary is in fact a painful one. Definitions can almost never cover the full complexity of a word, even in huge dictionaries. And even more painful is leaving words out simply for reasons of space. …

2009

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lexicographer#Noun
  • One who writes or compiles a dictionary.

1998

• (Schütze, 1998) ⇒ Hinrich Schütze. (1998). “Automatic Word Sense Discrimination.” In: Computational Linguistics, 24(1).
  • … This view of disambiguation as a two-stage process may not be completely general (for example, it may not be appropriate for the iterative process by which a lexicographer arrives at the sense divisions of a dictionary entry), but it seems applicable to most work on disambiguation in computational linguistics.

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