@article {lancashire_computing_2006,
	title = {Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English},
	journal = {Language and Computers},
	volume = {55},
	number = {1},
	year = {2006},
	note = {00004},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {45{\textendash}62},
	abstract = {The Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database corpus of monolingual glossaries, bilingual dictionaries (in which either source or target language is English), lexical encyclopedias, and linguistic treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. These texts document what speakers of English thought about their language over the lifetimes of authors like Sir Thomas More, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Dryden. LEME covers the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues from the advent of printing to the early eighteenth century. The scholar who pioneered the idea of the yet unrealized Early Modern English period dictionary, Charles Fries, would have recognized LEME to be a source of {\textquoteright}contemporary comments{\textquoteright}, quotations potentially useful in illustrating word usage. What Fries could not have imagined eighty years ago was a technology that would store all these quotations as distinct word-entries and list them, alphabetically by lemmatized headword, and then chronologically by lexicon date. A virtual Early Modern English period dictionary like LEME incorporates part of what he hoped to create. I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a three-year grant that enabled me to begin LEME in 2000, and to the Canada Foundation for Innovation that is supplying the computing infrastructure required for its creation.},
	url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/lang/2006/00000055/00000001/art00005},
	author = {Lancashire, Ian}
}