Notes from Electronic Lexicography by Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot

Introduction: Electronic lexicography - from challenge to opportunity

The first lexical database was Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1978)
Six innovations of digital lexicography
- corpus integration
  - as upstream - data to be sourced
  - as downstream - data to be used
  - "no serious compiler would undertake a large dictionary project nowadays without one"
- more and better data
- efficiency of access
- customization
  - adaptable; involve manual customization by the user
  - adaptive; adapt automatically to the user (based on the historical usage data)
- hybridization
- user input