Electronic lexicography

The formation of electronic lexicography, which is only now beginning to be recognized as a field in its own right, date right back to the late 1950s/early 1960s, when it went under the names of computer or computational lexicography and the dictionaries themselves were referred to as machine-readable rather than electronic. At that point, the scope of the field was restricted to “the use of computers in making dictionaries” (Logan 1991: 353).