Our patient and tireless programmer, Peter Lee, put together our ideas, tying up all the strands of this project. The basic design and administrative framework was provided by Bill and Tommy Wedlock. The web page design was created by Meenakshi Chandiramani. Thanks too to the numerous helpers we had long and short term over Christmas and summer breaks, including Lam Yin Man, Urgyen Mueller, Nicola Nightingale and Elen and Tom Storey.

Staff of the University of Hong Kong have also provided useful input for the project. We should thank Dr Sandra K.M. Tsang of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, for her advice and support; Dr Y F Luk, Director of the School of Economics and Finance; Dr. Mohan Kumaraswamy (CSE), Professor Brian J. Duggan (ME), Dr. L.K. Chu (IMSE) and Dr. A. Koenig (CSE) who assisted the engineering section in the recommendation of texts to include in the corpus.

And Dr. C.H. Leung (EEE), Dr. Alfred K.K. Wong (EEE), Dr. Ricky Y.K. Kwok (EEE) and Dr. L.G. Tham (CSE) who offered valuable feedback on the word list selection and definitions. A special thanks to Dr. Ian Gibson who should be credited with the original idea of focusing the engineering word list on inter-disciplinary engineering communication as well as recommending sources and editing the word lists.

We must also thank Hong Kong University Press for permission to use selected texts and the University of Hong Kong Library for guidance on accessing further texts and copyright issues.