37.364, Confs: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Subject: 37.364, Confs: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Date: 26-Jan-2026
From: Barbara McGillivray [barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop at LREC 2026


Neology and Large Language Models Workshop at LREC 2026
Short Title: NeoLLM2026

Date: 16-May-2026 - 16-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Meeting URL: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography

Submission Deadline: 20-Feb-2026

Motivation and Topics of Interest:
Understanding how LLMs capture, propagate, or even invent semantic
shifts raises fundamental questions for lexicography, language
modeling, and semantic resources. Addressing these questions requires
close collaboration between computational linguistics, lexicography,
and lexical resource development. Such interdisciplinary work can shed
light on how large language models both reflect and reshape linguistic
creativity, an inquiry that lies at the core of the proposed workshop.
The goal is to examine methodological, theoretical, and applied
questions: How can LLMs help identify, track, and categorize new
lexical items and senses across languages? To what extent do LLMs
replicate or amplify human neologisms and semantic shifts, and when do
they generate artificial or spurious ones? What are the implications
for lexicographic practice, language documentation, NLP applications,
and cultural studies of language change?
We invite researchers from computational linguistics, lexicography,
digital humanities, and language technology to explore the
intersection of LLMs and neology. We invite submissions on (but not
limited to) the following topics:
1 - Linguistic Innovation in the Age of AI
 - Neology detection and tracking using LLMs
 - How LLMs absorb, generate, and disseminate new lexical items
 - Benchmarks for LLM-driven neology detection
 - Legitimacy and authority in AI-generated neologisms
2 - Language Resources and Inequality
 - High-resource vs. low-resource languages in neology
 - Integration of neologisms in dominant languages
 - LLMs and neology for low-resource languages
3 - Cultural and Sociolinguistic Dimensions
 - Cultural appropriateness and contextual limitations of AI-driven
neologisms
 - Sociolinguistic perspectives on LLMs and neology
 - LLMs as participants in language innovation
 - Opportunities for language revitalization and documentation
4 - Future Considerations for Linguistic Research
 - AI’s role in shaping language futures
 - Strategies to ensure linguistic equity and diversity
 - Cross-disciplinary approaches: linguistics, AI, education, and
sociology
We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short
papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original
research, innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short
papers may also represent project descriptions. These do not have to
be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes the
project is created. Projects that are still in their early stages and
seek advice from the broader scientific community are welcome,
especially if they include underrepresented fields of study. We
particularly welcome work on under-resourced and endangered languages.
Submissions can be made via: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/
Papers should be formatted according to the LREC guidelines, please
see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions that do not
conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width,
and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to
share related language resources with the community. All repository
entries are linked to the LRE Map, which provides metadata for the
resource.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 20 February 2026
Notification: 15 March 2026
Camera-ready Copy: 30 March 2026
Workshop: 16 May 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”).
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NeoLLM2026/
Workshop website: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/
Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/
Workshop Organisers:
Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene (Mykolas Romeris University)
Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London)
Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg)
Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology)



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