B. T. S. Atkins

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Beryl T. ("Sue") Atkins has been a professional lexicographer since 1966, first with Collins Publishers (now HarperCollins), where she was General Editor of the first 'modern' English-French dictionary, the Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary, then as Lexicographic Adviser to Oxford University Press, where she pioneered methodology for the creation of bilingual dictionaries from corpus data, ultimately resulting in the Oxford-Hachette English-French Dictionary. Among her most important contributions to corpus linguistics, Sue Atkins originated the idea of the British National Corpus.

Among her honors, are an honorary DLitt by the University of Brighton (2000), UK, for services to lexicography and linguistics; a festschrift (2002) published by ( EURALEX]) to mark her contribution to international lexicography. She is also Past President and Honorary Life Member of the European Association for Lexicography EURALEX.

Sue Atkins currently teaches and consults in lexicography, and participates in national and international research projects in the field of computational lexicography. She is a Lexicographic Adviser to the FrameNet project at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, and a member of the Advisory Board of the American National Corpus, and the International Journal of Lexicography.

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