About CV Publications

Michael Rundell has been a professional lexicographer since 1980, working on a wide range of dictionaries. His special area is monolingual English dictionaries designed for learners. He has managed complex dictionary projects for a number of leading British publishers including Longman and Macmillan, and has been involved in the design and development of several major language corpora.

He has taught lexicography and lexical computing, both on university courses and in shorter workshops, and has written numerous papers on lexicographic issues and on the use of corpora in English language teaching.

In addition to his training and project-management work with LexMC, Michael has been Lexicographic Adviser to Bloomsbury Publishing plc. since 1997, leading the development of a new family of learners' dictionaries for Macmillan Education. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (MED) published in 2002 - a multi-million-pound project, and the first major ELT dictionary to be created from scratch for almost 10 years. In this role, he set up, resourced, and managed the project from start to finish. His responsibilities included developing corpus resources, corpus-querying software, and dictionary-writing software, as well co-ordinating the input from over 100 contributors (software suppliers, computational linguists, expert advisers, editors and proofreaders, phoneticians, and illustrators). The MED has been a critical (as well as a commercial) success, winning both the Duke of Edinburgh/English Speaking Union English Language Book Award (2002) and a British Council Innovation Award (2004).