Computational lexicology is a branch of computational linguistics, which is concerned with the use of computers in the study of lexicon. It has been more narrowly described by some scholars (Amsler, 1980) as the use of computers in the study of machine-readable dictionaries. It is distinguished from computational lexicography, which more properly would be the use of computers in the construction of dictionaries, though some researchers have used computational lexicography as synonymous. History Computational lexicology emerged as a separate discipline within computational linguistics with the appearance of machine-readable dictionaries, starting with the creation of the machine-readable tapes of the Merriam-Webster Seventh Collegiate Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster New Pocket Dictionary in the 1960s by John Olney et al. at System Development Corporation. Today, computational lexicology is best known through the creation and applications of WordNet. As the computational processing of the researchers increased over time, the use of computational lexicology has been applied ubiquitously in the text analysis. In 1987, amongst others Byrd, Calzolari, Chodorow have developed computational tools for text analysis. In particular the model was designed for coordinating the associations involving the senses of polysemous words. Study of lexicon Computational lexicology has contributed to the understanding of the content and limitations of print dictionaries for computational purposes (i.e. it clarified that the previous work of lexicography was not sufficient for the needs of computational linguistics). Through the work of computational lexicologists almost every portion of a print dictionary entry has been studied ranging from: what constitutes a headword - used to generate spelling correction lists; what variants and inflections the headword forms - used to empirically understand morphology; how the headword is delimited into syllables; how the headword is pronounced - used in speech generation systems; the parts of speech the headword takes on - used for POS taggers; any special subject or usage codes assigned to the headword - used to identify text document subject matter; the headword's definitions and their syntax - used as an aid to disambiguation of word in context; the etymology of the headword and its use to characterize vocabulary by languages of origin - used to characterize text vocabulary as to its languages of origin; the example sentences; the run-ons (additional words and multi-word expressions that are formed from the headword); and related words such as synonyms and antonyms. Many computational linguists were disenchanted with the print dictionaries as a resource for computational