Book Reviews

The field of computational lexicography concerns itself with the utilisation of information technology tools for the construction and maintenance of dictionaries for human and computer use. This book is a selection of articles from a workshop of the same title held in Marina di Grosetto, Italy in May 1986, in which issues relating to the lexicon were discussed from a variety of perspectives. Thus, the book joins a well established line of compilations on the subject (e.g. Evens, 1988; Boguraev and Briscoe, 1989; Zernik, 1992; Briscoe et al., 1993; Atkins and Zampolli, 1994). As the editors suggest, the book has historical importance, in addition to research value, as it identified the primary issues in the field and set forth a research programme for computational lexicography. It also attests to the wide ranging influence that the late Donald Walker had in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP).