This volume discusses problems of the organization of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. The objective is the production of flexible multi-purpose monolingual dictionaries which can be combined for contrastive applications. The discussion is based on a metalexicographic analysis of mono- and bilingual dictionaries. The book proposes a modeling of a verb lexicon fragment, represented by means of a constraint-based computational linguistic formalism (Typed Feature Structures). The bi-a-d multilingual applications of the lexicon are based on a detailed classification of contrastive lexical problems.