0 a person whose job is to write dictionaries
Reviews of dictionaries of all sorts appear frequently, and practicing commercial lexicographers are regular contributors.
When using corpus evidence, therefore, the lexicographer works with whatever comes up in the corpus rather than with individually or specially selected examples.
As was pointed out above, the need for specialized dictionaries has led various teams of linguists and lexicographers to develop new generations of collocational resources.
In sum: from a lexicographer's point of view, these two kinds of sense tagging are complementary and both can improve the lexical database.
But what we didn't know then was that new technologies were emerging which would have huge implications for lexicographers and linguists (and everyone else).
Moreover, no lexicographer can ever hope to compile a totally representative lexical account of a variety of language.
A team of nine distinguished lexicographers looks at different aspects of dictionaries and dictionary-making.
He also works as a translator and lexicographer.
