37.3178, Confs: 14th International Global Wordnet Conference (Netherlands)

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Subject: 37.3178, Confs: 14th International Global Wordnet Conference (Netherlands)

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Date: 02-Oct-2026
From: Luis Morgado da Costa [l.g.de.passos.morgado.da.costa at vu.nl]
Subject: 14th International Global Wordnet Conference


14th International Global Wordnet Conference
Short Title: GWC2027

Date: 01-Feb-2027 - 04-Feb-2027
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Meeting URL: https://cltl.github.io/GWC2027/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Documentation; Lexicography

Submission Deadline: 16-Oct-2026

The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the 14th
International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2027), to be held in
Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 1 to 4 February, 2026. The GWC2027
conference will be held under the auspices of the Global WordNet
Association, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Important information about registration and participation for GWC2027
will be incrementally added to the conference website:
https://cltl.github.io/GWC2027/
We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing,
though not limited to, the topics listed below. This year’s special
theme is language documentation: how can wordnets be used to support
language documentation around the world.  As such, we would like to
especially invite submissions on this topic. We hope this will foster
collaboration and cross-pollination between the both fields.
Conference Topics:
Lexical semantics and meaning representation
- Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations
- Proposed new relations
- Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency
statistics
- Word, sense, and context embeddings
- Necessity and completeness issues
- Ontology and wordnet
- Lexical semantics of emotions and other lexical fields of interest
for lexical typology (e.g. body parts, colors, motion verbs, etc.)
- Wordnets and other modalities
- Wordnets and other theoretical frameworks for modelling lexical
semantics
- Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to
wordnet-style meaning representation
Architecture of lexical databases
- Language independent and language dependent components
- Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (e.g.,
CLARIN, ELG, ELRA, etc.)
- Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD)
Tools and methods for wordnet development
- User and data entry interfaces
- Methods for constructing, extending, and enriching wordnets
- Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources
- Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with
large language models
- Wordnets for under-resourced languages
Applications of wordnet
- Word sense disambiguation
- Text generation
- Commonsense reasoning
- Machine translation
- Information extraction and retrieval
- Document structuring and categorization
- Text classification
- Automatic hyperlinking
- Language teaching
- Psycholinguistic applications
- Embeddings and pretrained language models
- Probing large language models
Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet
tools
- Best practices for wordnet maintenance, standardization, and
distribution
- Evaluation metrics for wordnet tools and resources
- Interoperability across wordnets and wordnet tools
- Licensing and legal considerations for wordnets distribution
- APIs and other web services for accessing wordnets
- Strategies for community involvement in wordnet standardization
Language documentation and wordnets
- Building wordnets for endangered, indigenous, and minority languages
- Representing culture-specific concepts, folk taxonomies, and
indigenous knowledge systems through wordnets
- Integration of wordnet development with linguistic fieldwork tools
(e.g., FLEx, ELAN, SayMore)
- Multimodal wordnets: Linking synsets to audio, video, and archival
field recordings
- Wordnets as resources for language revitalization and
community-based teaching
- Community-driven wordnet creation and participatory lexicography
- Overcoming data scarcity in wordnet construction for documented
languages
- Ethical considerations, data sovereignty, and open access in
endangered language wordnets
Submissions should fall into one of the following categories (page
limits exclude references):
- Long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation
- Short papers: 5 pages max, 15 minute presentation
- Project reports: 5 pages max, 10 minute presentation
- Demonstrations: 5 pages max, with up to 3 additional pages for
screenshots or images, 20 minute presentation
Submissions must be anonymized, and any identifying information must
be removed. Authors should indicate their preferred submission
category; however, the final category of acceptance may be adjusted by
the organising and scientific committees (e.g., if need be, a long
paper submission may be accepted as a short paper). At least one
author from each paper must register and present the paper in person
in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
To enhance replicability and transparency, authors are encouraged to
share the data and code used in their research, whenever possible in
an anonymized form. We recommend exploring data repositories that
support anonymization techniques and open-source code hosting
platforms like GitHub.
Camera-ready and final papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
format only.
Paper submissions must adhere to the official ACL style templates
available here for LaTeX and Word. Please also follow the general
paper formatting guidelines established by the “*ACL” conferences
available here. Authors should not modify these style-sheet files or
use templates designed for other conferences.
Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2027
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Deadline: October 16, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: November 27, 2026
- Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027
- Conference Dates: February 1-4, 2027
- Final Paper Submission for Proceedings: February 28, 2027
The deadline timezone is Anywhere on Earth



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