14th International Global Wordnet Conference Amsterdam, Netherlands February 1-4, 2027
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 invite submissions on this special. 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 - Methods for wordnet development specific 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
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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 https://github.com/.
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 https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. 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
- New Paper Submission Deadline: October 25, 2026 (extended) - Notification of Acceptance: December 4, 2026 (extended) - Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027 - Conference Dates: February 1-4, 2025 - Final Paper Submission for Proceedings: February 28, 2027
⏰ The deadline timezone is Anywhere on Earth https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth