The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries
Lexicography is the activity or profession of writing dictionaries. + lexicographer lexicographers lexi·cog·ra·pher A lexicographer's job is to describe the language. the skill, practice, or profession of writing dictionaries (lexikographos , from lexikon ( LEXICON) + -graphos )
A method of choosing among alternatives based on an analogy to the way words are arranged in a dictionary A single objective or attribute is rated as most important, and alternatives are ranked according to how well they satisfy this objective If an alternative is clearly superior in this attribute to other alternatives it is selected Otherwise the second most important attribute is used to rank the top alternatives from the first ranking This process continues, constantly reducing the number of alternatives ranked and ranking by less important attributes, until a single project is clearly superior for the attribute being used to rank the alternatives