Summing up. Modern trends in English lexicography are connected with the appearance and rapid development of such branches of linguistics as corpus (or corpus-based)

Modern trends in English lexicography are connected with the appearance and rapid development of such branches of linguistics as corpus (or corpus-based) linguistics and computational linguistics. Corpus (or corpus-based) linguistics deals with compiling various electronic corpora for conducting investigations in different linguistic fields. Computational linguistics is the branch of linguistics in which the techniques of computer science are applied to the analysis and synthesis of language and speech. Computational lexicographydeals with the design, compilation, use and evaluation of electronic dictionaries. Electronic dictionaries fundamentally differ in form, content, and function from conventional word-books. Among the most significant differences are: 1) the use of multimedia means; 2) the navigable help indices in windows oriented software; 3) the use of sound, animation, audio and visual (pictures, videos) elements as well as interactive exercises and games; 4) the varied possibilities of search and access methods that allow the user to specify the output in a number of ways; 5) the access to and retrieval of information are no longer determined by the internal, traditionally alphabetical, organization of the dictionary, but a non-linear structure of the text; 6) the use of hyperlinks which allow easily and quickly to cross-refer to words within an entry or to other words connected with this entry. There are distinguished two main types of electronic dictionaries: online dictionaries and CD-ROM dictionaries.

Key terms: corpus (corpus-based) linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus-based lexicography, new corpus-based generation of dictionaries, electronic dictionaries, online dictionaries, CD-ROM dictionaries.