Call for Papers
New Perspectives in Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (NPCL² 2026)
The international conference NPCL² 2026 aims to showcase rigorous, reproducible pathways that transform large-scale data into usable dictionaries. We welcome contributions on new computational technologies applied to lexicography and lexicology, as well as on the creation of digital dictionaries supported by these technologies (e.g., NLP, AI, databases, LLM methods, knowledge graphs, and ontological models such as OntoLex-Lemon). The main goal of this symposium is to strengthen collaboration between computational approaches and lexical sciences — from corpus acquisition and preprocessing to sense modeling, micro/macrostructure design, evaluation, and deployment.
Scope (non-exhaustive)
- Corpus-driven dictionary building for a wide range of languages and scripts worldwide.
- Data → Dictionary pipelines: ingestion, normalization, and tokenization for multilingual and low-resource settings.
- Sense modeling & representation (polysemy, multiword expressions, phraseology) with OntoLex-Lemon, SKOS, and Linked Open Data.
- Knowledge graphs and alignments (e.g., Wikidata/DBpedia) for lexical and encyclopedic integration.
- LLMs in lexicography: definition generation, example creation, error analysis, controllability, evaluation.
- Annotation & evaluation: guidelines, inter-annotator agreement, automatic metrics, human evaluation protocols.
- Cross-lingual and 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, neural or machine translation, domain-specific dictionaries, interactive and embedded dictionaries.
How to Submit
Please submit a title and a 500-word abstract (optionally 3–5 keywords) by February 28, 2026 via the CMT platform: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NPCLL2026.
Important Dates
- Call for papers opens: September 1, 2025
- Invitations sent to experts: September 15, 2025
- Abstract submission by authors: February 28, 2026
- Review results notification: April 15, 2026
- Registration deadline: May 30, 2026
- Conference dates: July 17–18, 2026