GWLN-8 program - 29 and 30 September @ EURALEX 2026 Vienna - 8th Global Workshop on Lexicography and Neology

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Welcome to GWLN-8 @ EURALEX 2026 in Vienna!

We had a record number of 32 submissions, of which 9 were accepted for oral presentation and 5 as posters.

GWLN-8 features the ENEOLI Session and is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) through ENEOLI - European Network on Lexical Innovation (CA22126) and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.

Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 9:00-13:00 – Oral Presentations
9:00                 WELCOME Kris Heylen and Ilan Kernerman
9:00-10:00        Morning Session
9:00     From neologism collection to lexicographic description: A Corpus-LLM-Lexicographer triangulation framework. Hae-Yun Jung, Jinsan An, Jun Lee and Kilim Nam
9:20     AI-assisted lexicography in Modern Greek: Neology and genre. Anastasia Christofidou, Vassiliki Afentoulidou, Ioannis Tziogkas, Christos Papanagiotou and Aretousa Giannakou
9:40     Documenting the undocumented: Leveraging LLMs for neologism integration into lexicons. Nikos Mathioudakis and Alexandra Fiotaki
10:00-11:00      ENEOLI Session
10:00    The ENEOLI matrix of neologism selection criteria: A comparative framework for
lexicographic practice. Kris Heylen, Ilan Kernerman, Judit Freixa, Tarja Heinonen, Hae-Yun Jung, Henrik Lorentzen, Kilim Nam, Benjamin Rouxel, Ana Salgado, Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez, Petra Storjohann and Lars Trap-Jensen
10:20    Can LLMs automate the neologism life cycle? Evaluating GenAI in lexicographical
description of new Polish words. Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Dariusz Czerski
10:40    Designing the macrostructure and microstructure of the ENEOLI Multilingual Glossary of Neology. Ilan Kernerman, Federica Vezzani, Anna Vacalopoulou, Onorina Botezat, John Humbley, David Lindemann, Michael Rosner, Ana Salgado and Raquel Silva
11:00-11:30      BREAK
11:30-12:30      Noon Session
11:30    Discursive dynamics of pejoration: The term “Pushback” between usage and lexicography. Petra Storjohann
11:50    Can LLMs capture China’s emerging economic neoconcepts lexicographically? Wanjing Han and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
12:10    Mapping emerging AI terminology through automatically built knowledge graphs. Randy Christian Saputra and Sílvia Barbosa
12:30-12:55      Poster-Preview Session (posters presented at the EURALEX Poster Session, September 30)
12:30    Neology mills? AI-influenced newspaper texts and their implications for lexicology and lexic.Louise Holmer
12:35    Choosing optimal AI prompt instructions for neologism detection. Marius Glebus
12:40    Tracing neologisms in neo-discourses: Diachronic and cross-domain perspectives. Luisa Cimander and Petra Storjohann
12:45    From detection to standardization: Practices and criteria for terminological neology. Ana Ostroški Anić, Federica Vezzani, Kris Heylen and Ilan Kernerman
12:50    AI-assisted lexicography and neology: A systems-thinking approach to emerging vocabulary. Yi Wang and Kesheng Wang
12:55-13:00      CLOSURE Ilan Kernerman and Kris Heylen


Publication thematic issue of the International Journal of Lexicography

GWLN-8 website   https://globalex.link/gwln-8_2026/


ENEOLI CA22146   https://eneoli.eu/


EURALEX 2026   https://euralex2026.at/en/registration/


GWLN-8 contact    gwln8@easychair.org

Organizers  Ilan Kernerman (Lexicala by K Dictionaries) and Kris Heylen (Dutch Language Institute)

Scientific Committee

Dora Amalia, Kemendikdasmen

Elisenda Bernal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Lian Chen, Université d’Orléans

Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick

Rute Costa, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Thierry Fontenelle, European Investment Bank

Alexander Geyken, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Rufus Gouws, University of Stellenbosch

Tarja Heinonen, Institute for the Languages of Finland

Kris Heylen, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal

John Humbley, Université Paris Cité

Miloš Jakubícek, Lexical Computing

Hae-Yun Jung, Kyungpook National University

Jelena Kallas, Institute of the Estonian Language

Ilan Kernerman, Lexicala by K Dictionaries

Amanda Laugesen, Australian National University

Robert Lew, Adam Mickiewicz University

Henrik Lorentzen, Society for Danish Language and Literature

Jurgita Mikelionienė, Kaunas University of Technology

Kilim Nam, Yonsei University

Ana Ostroški Anić, Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics

Misa Otsuka, Jissen Women’s University

Emrah Ozcan, Yildiz Technical University

Cécile Poix, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Benjamin Rouxel, Dictionnaires LeRobert

Ana Salgado, Universidade do Porto

Miguel Sanchez-Ibañez, Universidad de Valladolid

Petra Storjohann, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics

Ágústa Þorbergsdóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Carole Tiberius, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal

Lars Trap-Jensen, Society for Danish Language and Literature

Anna Vacalopoulou, Athena RC (ILSP)

Hai Xu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Cuilian Zhao, Sichuan International Studies University