Contents: Gabriele Stein, The Otto Jespersen Memorial Lecture. John Palsgrave as Precursor of Otto Jespersen. - Ladislav Zgusta, Some Developments in Lexicography, Past and Present. - Andrejs Veisbergs, Latvian Bilingual Lexicography. Tradition and Change. - Elena Bárcena/Tim Read, The Architecture of a Cognitive-based Multilingual Computational Dictionary. - Matthias Kammerer, Kritisches zu Schnelles Applizierung einer >Logischen SemantikJorgen Erik Nielsen, Otto Jespersen as a Lexicographer. - Dorthe Duncker/Hanne Ruus, Multi Level Text Representation in an LCB. - Rufus H. Gouws, Strategies in Equivalent Discrimination. - Sándor Martsa, On Animal Frames in English and Hungarian. - Geart van der meer, Further Ways to Improve the Active Dictionary: Collocations, Non-morphological >DerivationsStefan J. Schierholz, Governed Prepositions. A Database for German, English and Portuguese Nouns. - Ulrich Busse, Recent English Learner's Dictionaries and their Treatment of Political Correctness. - Bernhard Diensberg, Toward a Revision of the Etymologies in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' (OED 3rd edition, in progress). - Lars Holm, 'The bishop who strove for completeness.' On Taboos and Taboo-breaking in Swedish Dictionaries through the Ages. - Arne Zettersten/Hanne Lauridsen, The New Politiken English-Danish Dictionary: Politikens Engelsk/Dansk med betydningsforklaringer. - Hideki Watanabe, Quotations from 'Beowulf' and Other English Poems in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'. - Andreas Gröger, A Semantic Analysis of Old English Mental Verbs, Based on the Material of the Helsinki Corpus. - Ljubima Jordanowa, Die Zweite Wende (1996--1997) und die neuen Probleme für die Lexikographie in Bulgarien. - Makimi Kimura, The Naturalization Process of Japanese Loanwords as Reflected in English Dictionaries. The Four-Stage Hypothesis and Associated Problems. - Gunnar Persson, Vit flugsvamp or Destroying Angel. Cognitive Aspects of Names for Fungi in Some Languages. - Maja Lindfors Viklund/Yvonne Cederholm, Chasing the Dragon. Drug Related Terminology in a Multilingual Perspective.