What exactly does a computational lexicographer do? (It sounds interesting - I've been tinkering with trying to map dictionary contents to databases (with all the fun of parsing data from the internet) - stuff like that?) Conrad.Irwin 20:25, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'm just a typical corporate lexicographer who tries to do as much as possible using computer technology. Most of what I do is pretty old news to the domain of lexicography, like making concordance lists and different ways of counting frequency. I also have the pleasure of dealing with crazy data from the internet. In my spare time I also work on multilingual dictionary software. Aaron Lee 18:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
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