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've got a novel for sale, but I can also 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: If you are interested in presentations, workshops, courses, or lectures about dictionaries and lexicography, please see my separate web page devoted to that, and contact me from there. Thanks!

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

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