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Dictionary Consulting: If you want to publish a dictionary or other highly formatted reference work and don't know where to start, I can acquaint you with the various software platforms, editing scenarios, and publishing options (paper, mag media, Internet, or any combination of these).
Lexicography: Defining words and editing definitions, along with all the other tasks of dictionary-making, is what I do best and most, and I'm always ready for more. I have worked with half a dozen different database and text management systems, including DPS, Datalogics Pager, and PubMan.
Lexicographic Research: I work regularly on aspects of various large-scale NLP projects involving paraphrasing, machine translation, and artificial intelligence. I am happy to get involved in any aspect of similar projects that requires expert knowledge of English grammar and syntax or lexicographical insight into language behavior and patterns. I have extensive experience with WordNet, FrameNet, and several public domain and proprietary corpora.
Writing: I can write to your specifications. I'm the author of five nonfiction titles (two reference books and three travel guides), and I have another reference title forthcoming. I've also done extensive technical and encyclopedic writing.
English Language Localization: I can edit and/or rewrite text-based products written in any dialect of English in order to make them suitable for readers and speakers of British English or American English.
Editorial Management: I can assemble a team of home-based lexicographers and/or reference editors, or supervise the one you've already got, for book or multi-document projects. Provided that the logistics are workable, I can also do on-site editorial project management for jobs lasting a week up to several months.
Editing: I can do substantive editing of technical or reference material of any length quickly and accurately. See thumbnails for main flavors. I copyedit as well, mainly technical, reference, and other high-level material, especially multi-author reports.
Independent Evaluations: You can send me proposals or manuscript samples of dictionaries and reference books. I'll give you an expert evaluation for a standard fee. I can also survey the market for any particular reference genre and report on it for you.
Web Content: It's not my forte but if you like my writing (Language Lounge column on VisualThesaurus.com is the best place to sample it) and need content for your website, send me an email.
Education: I will teach the Lexicography course at the Linguistic Society of America's summer institute at the University of Colorado (Boulder) in the summer of 2011. But you needn't wait that long! Please contact me if you are interested in engaging an instructor for anything related to the making of dictionaries.

Look at my books on Amazon.com (US and UK) for readers' reviews. Email me (link above) if you want references from editors of projects I've worked on, or publishers for whom I have done evaluations.

US: BearingPoint, Berlitz, Cambridge University Press, Camp Dresser McKee, CL Research, Facts on File, Heinle Thomson (now Cengage Learning),Merriam-Webster, Microsoft Corporation, Oxford University Press, Scholastic, VisualThesaurus.com, Vocel

UK: Addison-Wesley-Longman, Bloomsbury, Chambers-Harrap, HarperCollins, Oxford University Press

Other abroad: Langenscheidt KG (Munich), Linguistic Computing Laboratory (Rome), Marshall Cavendish International (Singapore)

Currently I'm overseeing the new edition of the Scholastic Children's Dictionary (pub. July 2010) and expanding definitions for an English database for multilingual translation.
The Big Book of Spelling Tests (2007: Black Dog & Leventhal)
CollinsCobuild Advanced Dictionary of American English (2006)
Spell It! (the study booklet for next year's National Spelling Bee)
Berlitz English Pronunciation Programme (2006)
Words To Rhyme With, 3rd edition (2006)
Word-of-the-Day Quizzes for cell phones (for Vocel)
Language Lounge, the monthly column of Visual Thesaurus.com (ongoing)
Slang Rules! (2007)
Oxford American Dictionary (2005)
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (July 2004)
Collins/Cobuild English Usage (May 2004)
New Words (May 2004)
Langenscheidt Grosswoerterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (2004)

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Encyclopedia
Macmillan English Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of English
Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture
Thumbnails show a few of the other books I have written, edited, or contributed to.

I am an expert in the differences between British and American English. I have been writing and editing dictionaries and other reference works since 1990. Before all that I did quite a lot of teaching (ESL/EFL) and training (publishing software applications). I speak Arabic (Moroccan dialect) and have a good working knowledge of German and French. I am the book review editor of Dictionaries, a scholarly journal devoted to dictionaries and lexicography. I serve on the board of directors of three nonprofits: Dictionary Society of North America, International Meditation Center USA, and Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County (MD). This page gives you a good overview of my publishing experience. If you would like to see a more conventional resume, click here. You can also visit my website.

You can check out things I've written at the Oeuvre Groove. Just click on the link.
Orin's Oeuvre Groove.
I am otherwise available for writing, editing, and evaluation projects; preference given to reference writing and editing and lexicography.