📅 Date: July 17–18, 2026 📍 Venue: School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Agricultural University, China 中国湖北省武汉市洪山区南湖狮子山街1号 No. 1 Shizishan Street, Nanhu, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 🌐 Modality: Onsite and Online 📧 Contact: lian.chen@univ-orleans.fr benedict_geng@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Introduction
Following the research project
“Chinese and European Digital Lexicography” [中欧数字辞书创新发展路径比较及对策研究] (n° G2023157010L)
, now completed and having opened new avenues of reflection on lexicographic innovation, we are continuing this international dynamic.
Building on the
9th International Conference on Pedagogical Lexicography, Teaching and Learning of L2s (PL<L 2024) – Lexicography and Knowledge Services in the Age of AIGC
, as well as the
International Expert Seminar Series in
Computational Lexicology and Lexicography
, the
NPCL² 2026 International Conference
– New Perspectives in Computational Lexicology and Lexicography: From Data to Dictionaries aims to strengthen collaboration among researchers from several countries (France, China, Italy, Portugal, Canada, etc.) and to bring together international experts to address current and future challenges in computational lexicology and lexicography.
Scope (non-exhaustive)
Corpus-driven dictionary building for Asian languages and scripts (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indic scripts, Thai, etc.). Data → Dictionary pipelines: ingestion, normalization, tokenization for multi-script and low-resource settings. Sense modelling & representation (polysemy, multiword expressions, phraseology) with OntoLex-Lemon, SKOS, and Linked Open Data. Knowledge graphs and alignments (e.g., Wikidata/DBpedia) for lexical/encyclopedic integration. LLMs in lexicography: definition generation, example sentence creation, error analysis, controllability, evaluation. Annotation & evaluation: guidelines, inter-annotator agreement, automatic metrics, human evaluation protocols. Cross-lingual/contrastive lexicography (including dialectal variation and transliteration issues). Tools & platforms: APIs, interfaces, and workflows for dictionary authoring, validation, and publication. Ethics & governance: bias, fairness, licensing, and sustainability of data and models. Applications: educational lexicography, domain-specific dictionaries, interactive/embedded dictionaries.