Dictionaries other than general-purpose dictionaries in the Italian-LIS language combination are lacking in the area of LSP. The technical problems involved in the compilation of paper-based LIS dictionaries, which must convey linguistic information about a gestural three-dimensional language in two-dimensional format, are being overcome by the advent of the electronic dictionary through the application of sophisticated computer technology which has opened the way to a revolutionary means of processing and representing multimodal data.
