Call for papers
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Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026)
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online)
May 16, 2026
Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2026
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NeoLLM2026/
Workshop website: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/
Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/ https://lrec2026.info/
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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:
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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.grhttps://neollm2026.del.auth.gr//https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/
Papers should be formatted according to the LREC guidelines, please see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kithttps://lrec2026.info/authors-kit//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 Maphttps://lremap.elra.info/, 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”).
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)
Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli @BarbaraMcGillihttps://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli
Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities
Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Grouphttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group Open Researchhttps://emckclac.sharepoint.com/sites/artshums/SitePages/Open-Research.aspx?Mode=Edit Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Datahttps://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/